Doug Beatty

> Is there any way to make that macro execute against a separate connection? To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to use a separate connection at...

Transferred from https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9851

@ronco I'm handing this off to our team that maintains our `dbt-redshift` adapter. They have more expertise on all the nitty-gritty details of what is/isn't possible.

Thanks for reporting this @roshravoof ! I was able to replicate what you described. This only looks like it affects dbt-bigquery (and not dbt-postgres, dbt-snowflake, etc), so I'm going to...

Here's the error I'm seeing when running the [last step of the `integration_tests`](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-external-tables/blob/95bec9fa6e7ca4eca8ae8a5219da5b097ee89c88/.github/workflows/integration_tests.yml#L41) for Snowflake. I'll open an issue in the `dbt-fusion` repo if I can't find one. ``` $...

Thanks for reaching out @Ananz2022 ! Did you try using the [`default`](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-utils/?tab=readme-ov-file#get_column_values-source) parameter of [`dbt_utils.get_column_values`](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-utils/?tab=readme-ov-file#get_column_values-source), etc? When I followed the reprex below, I was able to get the same error...

You're welcome @Ananz2022 ! > We’re using the Empty tag for CI validation purposes. Is there a way to set default values for these so our CI can pass successfully?...

Thanks for these examples @Ananz2022 ! These are all in the territory of not-quite-a-feature-request and not-quite-a-bug. The best description is "limitation" of the `--empty` flag. Namely, [`--empty`](https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/build/empty-flag) works by wrapping...

These are awesome @Ananz2022 ! 🤩 Would you be interested in opening up PRs in the `dbt_utils` repo for either (or both) of these? The diffs seem pretty straight-forward, and...

Transferred from https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/11375