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title: "What is a Sledhouse Table?"
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# What is a Sledhouse Table?

A Sledhouse Table is Bobsled’s managed, analytic-ready replica of your source data. Think of it as a golden copy—we keep it up to date, store it in our infrastructure, and make it available for you to filter, transform, and share without touching your source again.

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## Why Sledhouse Tables exist

Moving data directly from source to destination works fine—but every transfer means reconnecting, re-extracting, and re-processing from scratch. That can:

- Increase egress costs
- Slow down delivery times
- Limit the ability to reuse or repurpose data

A Sledhouse Table solves this by creating a single, central copy in Bobsled. From there, you can distribute it to any number of destinations via [Data Products](/v2/docs/data-products-1) without re-pulling from the source each time.

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## Key benefits

| Benefit | What it means for you |
| --- | --- |
| **Egress-friendly** | Once the data is in Bobsled, we don’t need to re-pull it from your source for each delivery—reducing cross-region/cloud transfer costs. |
| **Performance-friendly** | Distributing from a local copy is faster, especially when using [Local Copies](/v2/docs/create-and-manage-local-copies) (for Cloud Data Warehouses) for destinations in the same region. |
| **In sync** | You control the schedule. We keep your copy fresh. |
| **Flexible outputs** | Create [Data Products](/v2/docs/data-products-1) from the Sledhouse Table—filtered, transformed, or enriched—and send them anywhere. |
| **Multi-destination ready** | Share the same data with multiple [consumers](/v2/docs/what-is-data-fulfillment) or platforms without additional configuration. |

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## How it works

1. **Ingest from your source**
  - Connect your Cloud Data Warehouse (CDW) or File Storage [source](/v2/docs/sources).
  - Configure once how the Sledhouse should be updated and replicated.
  - We run an initial sync to build your Sledhouse Table.
2. **Store in Bobsled**
  - Your golden data lives in Bobsled’s infrastructure as an Iceberg table (or equivalent format).
  - We manage its storage, schema, and metadata.
3. **Keep in sync**
  - On your defined schedule, Bobsled pulls only changes (or full reloads if needed) to keep the Sledhouse Table fresh.
4. **Distribute anywhere**
  - Turn the Sledhouse Table into one or more [Data Products](/v2/docs/what-are-data-products) and share them with destinations like Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Amazon S3, or Google Cloud Storage.

Ready to fast-track your data? Get started with our [Sledhouse quickstart](/v2/docs/getting-started-with-sledhouse) guide, or jump in to [create and manage Sledhouse Tables](/v2/docs/create-and-manage-sledhouse-tables).