- Fabric vs Snowflake/Databricks
Not a troll post but an honest question, and maybe more about Microsoft vs Snowflake/Databricks. Why is Fabric so far behind its competitors. Not so much from the perspective of specific UI/UX or...
98 points60 comments6 d ago
- Advice on keeping a job
Hey all, so, I have been doing this for about 6 years now on a legacy on-prem stack. Every time I try to transition to something more modern - dlt/dbt I get shot down. Stick to .NET, that's what...
43 points19 comments3 d ago
- Thoughts on McKinsey QuantumBlack?
I have been offered a position as a Junior Data Engineer at QB. The problem is that I don't really know too much about their reputation and if I would gain experiences and skills that would...
35 points15 comments5 d ago
- Ducklake in prod
My fellow data wranglers, Has anyone built a real production solution using DuckLake? I mean something with an ELT pipeline and actual users, that would have sid ducklake as a component?
34 points21 comments4 d ago
- Not-so-beginner wanting to independently build ETL infrastructure but don't know where to look for material (100-1000 sources) to use.
The title. I want to work on things like schema drift across sources, entity resolution, warehousing, fetching, idempotence, checkpointing and transaction management. I have already had practice...
14 points9 comments7 d ago
- Need scheduled, parameterized reports (Excel/PDF/CSV) on Azure SQL + Power BI Pro. Where should I spend?
Current setup Azure SQL Database (Standard S2, DTU model). No linked servers or cross-database queries. Power BI Pro for dashboards (40 users, 3 authors). We have no tool for scheduled or...
13 points18 comments4 d ago
- What are you using to ingest/search/scan code from internal repos?
hey everyone! I have about a few TB worth of code repository data (from git-client compatible source control) and I need to be able to run recurrent scans on the code itself (not on the repo...
8 points3 comments6 d ago
- Hotfix in Dataform
Hi, I'm close to releasing our Dataform branching and release process, but I'm unsure about the hotfix approach. Current setup: Dataform's default branch is main, so every workspace is cut from...
7 points0 comments2 d ago
- Need advise
My org has only OLTP, we are pulling data from it directly to powerbi and building facts and dims in semantic model. Now my org is thinking about creating datamarts for each department since there...
4 points7 comments4 d ago
- How to keep Models Synced
So at work I’m using Azure Pipelines as an orchestrator to materialize several tables in parallel. Each one is running a Create Table As Select sql statement and uses a DBT merge strategy so that...
4 points2 comments4 d ago