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A dbt adapter for Databricks.
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Behavior for external path #823

Closed benc-db closed 1 month ago

benc-db commented 1 month ago

Resolves #812

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Adding config to have dbt-databricks add catalog and schema information to the path of external tables, to reduce the likelihood of conflicts arising from tables with the same name. This is a huge pain in testing, but not sure if others hit this in the wild, hence why default is to not do this behavior. We probably should have always been doing this, but it could potentially break existing workflows, another reason to default to False.

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