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16.1.1 Transformation Executions


   Details of the most recent executions of transformations can be recorded, identifying when they ran and whether they completed successfully. This can be used to determine how complete and up-to-date specific information in the data warehouse is.

   An ActivityExecution represents an execution of a whole TransformationActivity, and a StepExecution object represents an execution of an individual TransformationStep. If a TransformationStep involves the use of an Operation, an associated StepExecution may reference a CallAction that records the actual arguments passed to the Operation.

   These classes allow the lineage of data in a data warehouse to be preserved, by recording when and how it was derived, and where it came from.