Mysql support

[lukmat86]

Hi

Is MySQL supported?

I was trying instruction from quick start section https://docs.elementary-data.com/oss/quickstart/quickstart-cli-package I couldn't find anything related to MySQL in documentation.

I'm working with MySQL 8.0.35

When I'm running dbt run --select elementary
I got errors:

08:08:37    Database Error in model data_monitoring_metrics (models/edr/data_monitoring/data_monitoring/data_monitoring_metrics.sql)
  1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'varchar(4096)) as id
  
  ,
                  
          cast('dummy_string' as varchar(' at line 25
  compiled Code at target/run/elementary/models/edr/data_monitoring/data_monitoring/data_monitoring_metrics.sql
08:08:37  
08:08:37    Database Error in model dbt_columns (models/edr/dbt_artifacts/dbt_columns.sql)
  1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'varchar(4096)) as unique_id
  
  ,
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[ellakz]

Hi @lukmat86 ,
MySQL is currently not supported

[drafie]

@ellakz As a point of clarity - is it possible to configure Elementary to use Redshift or BigQuery for its tables/data and continue using MySQL as the dataware house that DBT is transforming data within?

[ofek1weiss]

Hey @drafie , as elementary is a dbt package, it is limited by the fact that dbt itself does not support connecting to multiple warehouses in the same run, so that is not possible sadly