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We created this site to hear your enhancement ideas, suggestions and feedback about CONNECT products and services. All of the feedback you share here is monitored and reviewed by the CONNECT product managers.

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Virtual Tables & Shares

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Increased Editability of Virtual Table Fields

Currently, the only editable field in the Virtual Table settings is the Refresh Interval because modifying other fields render the table invalid, and require re-initialization or rebuilding. Other fields like Retrieval Mode, Retrieval Interval, an...
Dennica Mitev 2 days ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status

Granularity into Virtual Table status

It would be useful to have more details about what sub-status and/or step the Virtual Table is on beyond the current available states. This is especially useful for troubleshooting table status and what step it may be stuck on.
Miranda Hill 5 days ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status

Change schema name when publishing Virtual Tables to Databricks

Virtual Tables exposed to Databricks appear in Databricks using a unique ID as schema name, which is very cumbersome to use. It would be helpful to have the ability to specify the schema name
Roberto Serrano 3 months ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status

Allow partitioning configuration for virtual tables

Databricks allows for specification of partitioning configuration on a deltatable. In some cases, this can improve query performance when querying the deltashare. It would be nice if on the virtual table, partitioning options were available which ...
Adam Fink 4 months ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status

Provide synced times for Manual Refresh of with Scheduled Refresh of virtual tables with Interpolated Mode

When one does a manual refresh of a virtual table that is set for interpolated data, no cues are given of the offset \ start index. As a consequence, if the user picks a start time or end time that is inconsistent with scheduled refresh start inde...
Brian Deslatte 3 months ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status

Configure refresh interval start time

End-users of created virtual tables expect updates at specific times.Request would enable user to indicate when refresh should occur. For example, for daily refresh, indicating a time of 5am, so that end-users can query the updated table when they...
Glenn Moffett 8 months ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status

Integration with MS Fabric Shortcuts

Analog to DataBricks DeltaSharing, MS Fabric Shortcuts would expose virtual tables from CONNECT Data Services into MS Fabric. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/onelake/onelake-shortcuts. The idea is exactly the same than for the DataBri...
Christian Leroux 11 months ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status

metadata table describing virtual table

This enables- Verify data table is correct- Ensure data is used correctly based upon configuration - Precision – data type.List virtual table, name, columns, last updated, assets, metadata, properties and their types
Glenn Moffett 11 months ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status

multiple schema support

Several sites and projects use virtual tables. Multiple schemas would allow organization simply what table is for which site/project manage security at the schema level
Glenn Moffett 11 months ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status

Ability to see created by/at and modified by/at for virtual tables and shares

As an administrator, I'd like to know which users are creating virtual tables and share to be able to manage the tables created better. With that information, I can track down who "owns" each table. Ideally this information would be in the side bar.
Jessica Rammo 11 months ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status