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Working with dbt version 2 I'm trying to set up source checks but I'm running into an issue where the column names I'm setting tests for have dashes (e.g. my_table.some-field-with-dash). I current...
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2023-09-20T20:01:44Z (about 1 year ago)
How do I pass field names containing dashes in dbt source yml file?
Working with dbt version 2 I'm trying to set up source checks but I'm running into an issue where the column names I'm setting tests for have dashes (e.g. `my_table.some-field-with-dash`). I currently get e.g. the following error when running dbt test: "Database Error in test testname: column "some" does not exist in my_table". Unfortunately I can't change the source column names. Is there a way I can enter the field names into the source yml file so it gets passed through correctly? I've tried single and double quotes around the column name, and adding the following quoting configuration: ``` quoting: database: true schema: true identifier: true ``` Database is redshift but I don't think this is db specific.