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Min Partition Size Anomaly Reporting

How the Min Partition Size check reports violations: the Shape Anomaly it produces, what the numbers mean, and how a partition-level anomaly differs from a row-level one.

Anomaly Messages

Min Partition Size always reports a Shape Anomaly, one per failing partition. There is no Record Anomaly: the rule evaluates a count, not individual rows, so there is no offending row to point at.

Shape Anomaly

There are only <record_count> records present in <partition>, not the expected <value>

Reading the message:

  • <value> is the Minimum partition size configured on the check.
  • <record_count> is the number of records actually loaded from that partition.
  • <partition> is the name of the partition that failed, which is the file name for a file container and the loaded slice for a table.

Because the anomaly is raised against the partition rather than against a set of rows, the Source Records view does not list violating records: there are none to list. What the anomaly gives you is the partition name and the two counts.

Custom Anomaly Description does not apply to this rule. The option replaces the message on Record Anomalies, and Min Partition Size emits a Shape Anomaly only.

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