Tim Nickason
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Tim Nickason commented,
Egidio, This is not really a solution. We have many pipelines already built upon the Fivetran SFDC connector that uses the Fivetran naming conventions. What I need is something that detects the ...
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Tim Nickason commented,
Hi Allison, We see the duplicate column name warning perhaps once or twice per quarter (maybe a bit less). This is almost entirely related to our SFDC usage where managed packages come and go and ...
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Tim Nickason created a post,
Connector Improvement: Provide a way to override the target column naming behavior to avoid duplicate column warnings
AnsweredWe periodically add new columns to our SFDC objects (which we replicate to Snowflake via Fivetran). On occasion, we encounter duplicate column warnings which say that the column didn't get replica...
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Tim Nickason created a post,
Connector Improvement: When selecting all objects to sync, automatically skip those which require full re-sync
AnsweredIn the salesforce connector (and others I suspect), when I select 'all' objects to be sync'd, it would be nice if the Fivetran schema interface would automatically not include those objects that Fi...
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Tim Nickason commented,
Did this ever get resolved? I've been looking at this as a candidate to replicate but without a primary key, I'm not keen to pay high MAR cost each month for it.
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Tim Nickason created a post,
Connector Improvement: Data Blocking should default to 'Allow columns' and NOT 'Allow All'
In the SFDC and probably other connectors, it seems that the data blocking default is 'allow all' but I believe it should be 'allow columns' (ie: only augment existing objects with new columns if t...
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Tim Nickason commented,
Ray, I'm familiar with the pitfalls of using replicated SFDC formula fields in Fivetran, but certain internal customers still want them available and I rather not have to get formula fields on a co...
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Tim Nickason created a post,
Connector Improvement: Announced Oct 1 change to Salesforce connector re: Formula fields is a step back
Not plannedI received an email from Fivetran today mentioning the fact that come Oct 1 2023, the replication of SFDC formula fields (on new connectors) will require customers to use the API to enable formula ...
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Tim Nickason commented,
Hi Lyndsey, I was looking for the meaning of a specific error message but had there been a list of all errors/warnings (across all connector types..etc), I could have looked it up myself. I reco...
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Other: Provide documentation on all possible errors/warnings that could be generated in the console.
I'm told that Fivetran currently does not provide documentation of the meaning of all error and warning messages which could be displayed in the console for various connector concerns. I had to cr...