Environment

An Environment is the deployment target for your data pipeline. You deploy DDL and run refreshes against the warehouse credentials and Storage Mappings configured for that Environment.

Environments are designed for steady-state operation:

• Structural changes use ALTER where possible instead of drop and recreate.
• Deleted objects are cleaned up in the warehouse.
• You do not develop directly in an Environment. Work happens in a Workspace, then flows through version control into an Environment.

Common Environment types include development, QA, staging, and production. Each can use different Storage Mappings, parameters, and connection settings.

See Environments for configuration details.