Unity Catalog Can't Manufacture Trust: Your Most-Read Databricks Table Might Be the Least Trusted

The rollout is done. Every production table migrated to Unity Catalog, every one owned by a team group, and the revenue table carries a certified check mark. The platform lead posts in Slack: fully governed. Monday morning, finance replies in the thread. The revenue on the finance dashboard and the revenue in the sales deck are about three percent apart. Which one's real?

The catalog has something to show for every field: an owner, a check mark, a health indicator that says healthy, a beautiful lineage graph. None of them answers that question. Unity Catalog might be the best thing your…