Microsoft SQL Server support?

[sfirke]

Is SQL Server currently supported? I see it is on the R version: https://github.com/rstudio/pointblank. If not, is this planned?

[rich-iannone]

It might actually work right now! We use Ibis to handle many non-DataFrame backends. If you can create an Ibis table with an mssql connection (as in this Ibis reference page: https://ibis-project.org/backends/mssql), it may work pretty well. I say this because I haven't formally tested against SQL Server, and I'd only like to certify everything is good when it's tested.

Would you be willing to try it out and maybe let me know? :)

[sfirke]

Yep, consider this assigned to me. I found pointblank while in the "evaluating options" stage of building an in-the-ETL-pipeline process for data quality checks and alerting. It's the most promising option I've found, so it looks like I'll try building off it, and when I get to that I will report back - though that might not be for a couple of months.

[rich-iannone]

Great! Also let me know if there's anything you need for making this package generally better for pipelines.