Some Quickstart transformations are failing with “Trying to create view <view name> but it currently exists as a table”

Incident Report for Fivetran

Resolved

We have resolved this incident.
Posted Jul 16, 2024 - 15:33 UTC

Monitoring

Our engineers have found that a full refresh run from the Fivetran UI is needed to resolved this issue. We’ll be sending out an email with further details soon
Posted Jul 16, 2024 - 15:33 UTC

Update

Our engineers are investigating this issue. If you are effected you will see the following error in your transformation logs


"trying to create view but it currently exists as a table. Either drop or run dbt with --full-refresh and dbt will drop it for you"

To resolve immediately, run a full refresh by:
1.) Opening your transformation dashboard.
2.) Clicking on a transformation name to navigate to your transformation model page.
3.) Clicking the arrow beside the “Run” button in the top right corner and then click “Run with full refresh”.
Posted Jul 12, 2024 - 21:02 UTC

Identified

The issue has been identified and we are working to resolve it.
Posted Jul 12, 2024 - 20:57 UTC
This incident affected: Systems (Transformations).