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wooden-spring-14915
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elegant-house-93198
01/26/2023, 8:37 PM
Hey @alert-waiter-55848 it depends on the database/datawarehouse dbt is connected to. Since dbt doesn't generate column level lineage, we're parsing the queries on the data warehouse to determine column lineage
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alert-waiter-55848
01/26/2023, 8:57 PMsnowflake
alert-waiter-55848
01/26/2023, 8:58 PMwhat I want is for the documentation to be inherited so I do not have to embed a doc block everywhere a field is in a view.
alert-waiter-55848
01/26/2023, 8:59 PMdoes secoda support that or know of a way to do that with dbt or perhaps snowflake is supported?
alert-waiter-55848
01/26/2023, 9:00 PM@elegant-house-93198 ^
alert-waiter-55848
01/26/2023, 9:07 PMI see there is a bulk update to do what I am asking about above? Is there a way that this can happen automatically? Can you point me at some docs? Does this get retained upon a refresh?
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elegant-house-93198
01/26/2023, 9:26 PM
@alert-waiter-55848 here's the best way to accomplish what you're describing https://www.loom.com/share/f716545a3efb4afb84c79c35d468a525
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alert-waiter-55848
01/27/2023, 3:24 PMThanks @elegant-house-93198 - I found this yesterday but will it retain the data after a refresh - I could not find anything to confirm this? If I go to the trouble of using this feature then I do not want to see all the descriptions get deleted. Also, what happens if I add a description to a filed that was bulk updated in say dbt and then do a refresh - will the dbt description take precedence? I would be happy to read any docs but could not find any.
alert-waiter-55848
01/30/2023, 10:29 PM@elegant-house-93198 ^ Ping
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elegant-house-93198
01/30/2023, 10:57 PM
Hey @alert-waiter-55848 thanks for the ping, so descriptions that are in Secoda would not be overwritten by descriptions that are in dbt unless you toggle the description preference under your dbt integration settings. If that's toggled then dbt will be used as the source of truth for descriptions
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alert-waiter-55848
01/31/2023, 2:14 PMThanks!
alert-waiter-55848
01/31/2023, 2:23 PM@elegant-house-93198 - any docs besides the video on this? If the toggle is set to NOT Always use the integration source I assume NO descriptions will be brought in and we do all of our work in secoda?
alert-waiter-55848
01/31/2023, 7:07 PMor will it bring in what it finds if there are no descriptions and then if we use secoda it will not overwrite what was changed?
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elegant-house-93198
01/31/2023, 7:46 PM
There aren't any docs but @breezy-breakfast-2643 it would be a good idea to create a doc to specify how importing descriptions works in more details.
In terms of your question @alert-waiter-55848. If the preference is not checked, the description will be brought in from the source if no description exists in Secoda. If a description exists in Secoda it will not be overwritten.
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alert-waiter-55848
01/31/2023, 7:46 PMthx