1.3.2. Lineage and Compliance

💡 First Principle: Data lineage answers "where did this number come from?" by tracing transformations backward from report to source. Without lineage, troubleshooting is archaeology—digging through logs to reconstruct what happened.

Fabric provides automatic lineage tracking:

• Source connections
• Transformation steps
• Downstream dependencies

This matters for compliance because auditors can verify: "This report's revenue figure traces back to the ERP system through these documented transformations."