Workaround · Integrations · Blocks work
Pointing Metabase at the app database makes combining other data hard
1 source thread · first seen 2019-07
Summary
Connecting Metabase straight to the application database causes trouble when integrating another data set such as CRM data, so the commenter loads everything into a warehouse first.
- Affects
- Teams connecting Metabase to production databases
- Workaround
- ELT all sources into a data warehouse and do last-mile analysis in Metabase
Evidence
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“If you are connecting metabase directly to your app database then you will probably run into issues trying to integrate another data set”