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quick question: What's the Best Practices for canceling a flow if the data origin has no new entries?  Should I raise an Exception?

Hi <@UPD794U93> - welcome to Prefect! Glad we don't feel terrifying. :grin:

Others may have ideas on best practice for your question but you could check out signals - <https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/engine/signals.html#endrun>

In this case, raising a `SKIP` signal sounds like the semantically correct signal to raise