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How are Alters Handled in Fivetranlink

Updated 11 days ago

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What happens when there are changes to a table's structure, such as addition or removal of columns and changes in indexes?

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We track DDL changes (Alters) in the database by running queries against the source to pull the columns and data types and comparing them to what we synced previously to identify any structural changes in the tables.


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