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backfill

noun

B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

The retroactive population of historical records into a dataset or pipeline that previously lacked them.

Once the new event schema shipped, we kicked off a backfill to restate the last two years of sessions.

Topic: Data & analytics in Business English

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