Hi

I'm sure many of you have power bi reports that use the native Databricks connector to pull data from a schema to fuel a wonderful dashboard. If the source schemes was moved to a different catalog or a table renamed then the pbi connection would be broken and would have to be repaired by going into the advanced editor and changing the source from where the pbi pulls from.

If you have one or two pbi reports this is none to troubling. If however throughout you organization you have many this can be quite a task.

Is there a recognized way, or does anyone have a good idea, how one might "de-couple" a pbi report from the core schema and have it point first to a buffer which in turn point to the catalogs. The pbi knows no different, it will always point to the buffer that it was build from. Any repointing can be done on the Databricks side in some configuration.

My initial thoughts were along these lines. To select from a Databricks view, a view that could be dropped and programmatically and recreated pointing to the switched catalog. Such a script could be run manually in Databricks or fired at its api from a release pipeline if different environments dev/qa/prd were in play.

Gary

Any thoughts? Recommendations