Fivetran slammed for dropping SQL support. CEO: 'Blame me for this'
Fivetran, the automated data integration company once valued at $5.6 billion, has received a volley of criticism for ending direct support for ubiquitous data language SQL, leading to a frankIn an email shared on Twitter, the company said that from April 2023, it planned to end support for SQL for basic SQL transformation.
Dbt is a data transformation tool that works with Fivetran that can be used as part of an end-to-end ETL process. The company explained developers would still be able to use SQL with dbt. "SQL has long been the language of choice for analysts developing transformations and performing analysis. Therefore, the decision for dbt to have a model file be a SQL SELECT statement means analysts don't need to learn a new language or tool and can freely transform data the same way they have previously.
But the commentariat was less than impressed."Fivetran dropping support for SQL and forcing users to move to dbt. Oh but you're going to love it because 'modern'. Not going to happen," one CTO piped up.In stepped Fivetran's CEO to calm the waters.
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