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Incremental Daily Batch Load Strategy

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You're working on a daily batch pipeline and want to avoid full reloads as data volume grows. You need a practical way to load only new or changed records while keeping the target tables accurate and easy to recover when a run fails.

Question

Describe how you would implement and manage an incremental data load strategy for a daily batch process.