🚧 Logical Use Case: The Disappearing Data Dilemma 🕵️♂️
Shivakumar A.
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Imagine you have an integration between System X (a CRM) and System Y (a Data Warehouse). You're syncing customer data every night. However, every morning, your reports show missing or partial records in System Y — but only on some days. 😱
📊 Here's what we know:
No manual intervention. No obvious failures. No pattern in the missing records.
🤯 So… where did the data go?
This week’s INSIGHT is going to be fun and mysterious. We're diving deep into edge cases where everything “seems right,” but still goes wrong.
👉 Think it through:
🧠 Put your thinking cap on and drop your wild guess in the comments or message me directly.
Stay tuned for the big reveal in the next edition of INSIGHT. 🚀
Sr. Software Engineer at Yucca Scalian Group (Yucca IT Solutions) | Workato Developer | Workato Certified | ChatBOT Design | IoT Developer | Internet Of Things |
4moInteresting question, Shivakumar A. 👏 It really makes me pause and think — getting to the exact root cause can be tricky, especially when multiple factors like time, scheduling, or data load priorities are involved. I think one of the possible reasons could be a time-zone mismatch or a time-bound scheduling issue. Reason: - Let's say the job is scheduled on day-1 at 11:45 PM, and System X has 100 records. - By 11:59 PM, 80 records are uploaded to System-Y. - The remaining 20 records get pushed after 12:00AM, i.e., on day-2. - Now, when the report is generated in the morning based on day-1's data, it only includes 80 records, while the remaining 20 show up under day-2 due to the timestamp shift. - So the data wasn’t lost — it was just split across two days because of how the timestamps were handled. Or maybe there's something else... like Race conditon 🤔