Problemsby Glyphdbt
by dbt Labs50 problems165 posts+1 this week
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dbt problems
Upgrades and new releases break working setups
76 posts from 62 people on GitHub issues, Reddit, App Store reviews.
Permissions and IAM are confusing and error-prone
27 posts from 27 people on GitHub issues, Reddit, Hacker News.
Hard to trace lineage and find trusted tables
21 posts from 21 people on GitHub issues, Reddit, Hacker News.
Models fail to return valid structured output
15 posts from 13 people on GitHub issues, Hacker News.
Apache Airflow users keep filing bugs
Top post: "Status of testing Providers that were prepared on October 20, 2026", one of 41 posts from 31 people on GitHub issues, Reddit.
AWS Glue users keep filing bugs
Top post: "Which AWS Glue Schema Registry JAR dependencies are required for Confluent S3 Sink Connector on AWS MSK?", one of 4 posts from 4 people on GitHub issues, Stack Overflow.
Trouble with Databricks genie
Top post: "Databricks: support Genie consultations and resumable standalone tasks", one of 3 posts from 3 people on Reddit, GitHub issues.
dbt users keep filing bugs
Top post: "dbt deps randomly fails with 500 Internal Server Error from codeload.github.com", one of 34 posts from 20 people on GitHub issues, Reddit, Community forums.
Snowflake users keep asking for help
Top post: "Frequency/histogram of an array", one of 31 posts from 27 people on Reddit, GitHub issues, Stack Overflow.
DuckDB users keep filing bugs
Top post: "latest alpha DuckDB 2.0 with Quack server on Windows/Linux got `Authentication failed` since several days ago", one of 23 posts from 15 people on GitHub issues.
ClickHouse users keep filing bugs
Top post: "Tighten seccomp policy for optional kernel interfaces", one of 19 posts from 8 people on GitHub issues.
Deprecations force unplanned migrations
18 posts from 18 people on GitHub issues, Reddit, Hacker News.
BigQuery users keep asking for help
Top post: "buildable indirect selection drops every test that reads a seed outside the selection", one of 14 posts from 14 people on GitHub issues, Stack Overflow, Reddit.
Documentation is outdated, thin or confusing
14 posts from 14 people on GitHub issues, Reddit, Hacker News.
Microsoft Fabric users keep asking for help
Top post: "SQL: support time-zone-aware timestamps (CAST AS TIMESTAMPTZ / TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE, AT TIME ZONE)", one of 10 posts from 9 people on Reddit, GitHub issues.
Tools are clunky and unintuitive to use
9 posts from 9 people on GitHub issues, Reddit, Hacker News.
Data modeling choices are unclear and hard to change
9 posts from 9 people on Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub issues.
Trouble with Databricks table
Top post: "Unity Catalog client re-encodes or decodes a table location that contains a percent sequence", one of 8 posts from 8 people on GitHub issues, Reddit.
Ingestion connectors and CDC are fragile
8 posts from 8 people on GitHub issues, Reddit.
Modeling data in Databricks is unclear and hard to change
7 posts from 7 people on Reddit.
Trouble with Apache Iceberg spark
Top post: "Spark: WAP snapshot isolation broken for format-version 3 tables when deletion vectors are used (spark.wap.id)", one of 7 posts from 7 people on GitHub issues.
Hard to trace lineage and find trusted data in dbt
6 posts from 6 people on GitHub issues, Reddit.
Debugging orchestration and DAG failures is hard
5 posts from 5 people on GitHub issues.
Databricks jobs fail silently or break often
5 posts from 5 people on GitHub issues, Reddit.
Modeling data in dbt is unclear and hard to change
4 posts from 4 people on Reddit.
Trouble with dbt fusion
Top post: "With dbt Fusion and no dbt-core, every definitions load runs `dbt list` and leaves a target directory behind", one of 4 posts from 4 people on GitHub issues.
Trouble with Databricks catalog
Top post: "Spark support for Unity Catalog Iceberg", one of 4 posts from 4 people on Reddit, GitHub issues.
DuckDB permissions are confusing and error-prone
3 posts from 3 people on GitHub issues.
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Problems here are about dbt or name it. It is tracked from the product list on the Method page. Website: getdbt.com.