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Public search query: dbt test failed: unique_combination_of_columns failed with duplicate keys error
Problem outcome: unknown
Query the source grouped by the key to find the duplicated keys, fix the upstream join or dedupe rule that produced the second row, and only then re-run the refresh. Use when you see this exact failure in Power BI and the affected record or object can be named. Not for a different Power BI error with another message, …
Fetch the existing object first and update it in place, or merge the duplicates and keep the record with the fuller history, instead of creating a second one. Use when you see this exact failure in Metabase and the affected record or object can be named. Not for a different Metabase error with another message, or for …
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - dbt incremental merge failed: cannot merge on column of type variant - agent cannot parse new hire spreadsheet with merged cells: parsing failed with error and the workflow broke
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: dbt+incremental+merge+failed+cannot+merge+on+column+of+type
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes an agent retry storm after a Segment outage that flooded the warehouse with duplicate usage events and doubled churn counts, by deduplicating events and fixing retry behaviour. Use when usage roughly doubles after an outage. Not for a real usage doubling confirmed by server logs.
Fixes logo churn that doubled on paper while cancellations stayed flat, caused by duplicate accounts inflating the churn count, through account deduplication. Use when churn counts jump but billing cancellations do not. Not for a real doubling confirmed in billing records.
Fixes a dbt accepted_values test failing on the churn_status column so cancelled accounts stop being coded as active, by tracing the unexpected values to their source model. Use when the test lists values outside the allowed set. Not for relaxing the test to hide real data problems.
Fixes the cost and correctness fallout when a generated dbt model lands with the wrong materialization, such as a full table rebuild of a huge model or a view where a table was needed, covering materialization review and config guardrails. Use when a merged model change spikes warehouse spend. Not for a model whose co…
Fixes the breakage after an agent merged two model fixes into one file, corrupting both models. Use when a single .sql file now contains two model definitions or mixed logic. Not for intentional multi-CTE models that are genuinely one model.
Fixes the damage and root cause after an agent dropped unique_key from an incremental model config, forcing full table rescans or duplicate prone appends. Use when an incremental model lost its unique_key. Not for models designed as append-only.
Covers recovering from an agent rerunning a partial load so already loaded rows are written twice, including finding the duplicate window, deduplicating safely, and making the load idempotent. Use when a retry has duplicated data in the warehouse. Not for duplicates caused by a source that itself sends repeated record…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent parser failed on wrangler.toml with duplicate top-level keys - agent reported an N+1 on a paginated list but the per-row queries only ran on the current page -- 20 rows, not 2000
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent re-ran a partial load and wrote duplicate rows to the warehouse
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes incremental merge models that keep duplicating rows instead of deduplicating on unique_key. Use when row counts grow on every run with repeated keys. Not for append models, which duplicate by design.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - dbt incremental model full refresh failed: unique key collision - dbt incremental merge failed: cannot merge on column of type variant
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: dbt incremental model merge not deduplicating: duplicate rows keep growing
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's dbt ls failed when agent tried listing models in a monorepo - asyncapi modelina "failed to generate" typescript types…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: airbyte normalization failed on dbt model, sync stuck
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes the silent empty table outcome where dbt run succeeds but the Snowflake table has no rows. Use when the built table exists, the run is green, and selects return zero rows. Not for failed runs or missing tables.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - snowflake table swap failed during dbt run - dbt grants error: not applying to new tables in snowflake - [dbt run error: None…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: dbt run succeeds but the snowflake table is empty
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a dbt snapshot that misses hard deletes, covering the check strategy versus timestamp strategy, invalidate_hard_deletes, and sources that physically remove rows. Use when deleted source rows stay current in the snapshot. Not for soft deletes that arrive as an updated flag.
Fixes a dbt incremental merge that fails on Snowflake because the unique key or a compared column is a VARIANT, covering casting the key, flattening semi-structured data, and merge strategy choice. Use when the merge statement errors on a variant column. Not for a plain type mismatch between two scalar columns.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - dbt seed failed: cannot cast type varchar to timestamp in csv - dbt incremental merge vs delete insert strategy - [merge queu…
Problem outcome: unknown