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I am in charge of reporting, business intelligence and DE. We use VCS to have all our SQL transformations stored there. Like that all the business users inter
by i_like_waiting 4y ago
I am in charge of reporting, business intelligence and DE.
We use VCS to have all our SQL transformations stored there.
Like that all the business users interested can see whats happening in background and we have things version controlled.
For rest of the features we don't have use case and our "proper IT" is using github instead, but there you have to pay per seat in org. as I heard
- i_like_waiting 4y agoexplaining it now, for business users we would achieve the same if they had access to sharepoint folder with the code + syntax highlighting. But I also believe its beneficial to educate the user about VCS as side objective.
- lbotos 4y agoIf the business users never need to write, just read, then you could set the projects to public (if your instance is in a private network) and then people can have vis, and you don't need seats for those who aren't writing. I think both products support this as an option.
- geepdb 4y agoWe ran into the same issue using dbt. Unfortunately it is just not cost-effective to pay for full GitLab licenses for BI users that occasionally tweak SQL queries and don’t leverage any other GitLab features.