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Hi! I'm working on a project to move our looker workloads from SQL Server to Snowflake. I'd like to be able to use our existing model file but dynamically change the connection between SQL/Snowflake based on user attributes that I set. I want to do this because it means I can gradually shift users to the new backend (and I can avoid doing a hard cutover).
How can I accomplish this? I've tried:
1. Using Liquid to alter the connection of the model, e.g.:
{% if _user_attributes['use_snowflake'] %}
connection: "snowflake"
{% else %}
connection: "sql_server"
{% endif %}
That doesn't work since apparently Liquid can't be used there.
2. Altering the connection attributes based on user_attributes:
This doesn't work. Although you can dynamically route users to different databases within (say) SQL Server using attributes, you can't point them to a connection with a different dialect.
Is this possible using Looker?
