What is a primary responsibility of a table owner?

A primary responsibility of a table owner is creating and managing the table. This involves several critical tasks, including defining how the table will be structured, what data types will be used for each column, and ensuring that the table is appropriately configured to store the necessary information efficiently.

In addition to initial creation, table management encompasses ongoing responsibilities, such as updating the schema as business needs evolve, implementing changes for performance improvements, and managing permissions to control who can access or modify the table.

While optimizing query performance, defining the table schema, and auditing data access are important functions related to data management, they are not exclusively the primary responsibilities of the table owner. Optimizing query performance, for instance, often involves collaboration with database administrators or data engineers, while auditing can be the duty of compliance and security teams. Thus, the creation and management of the table itself is fundamentally the role of the table owner.