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Schema creation automation

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#1,354 opened on Nov 11, 2020

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Description

is there a way to create the schema automatically? in Looker for example when you connect the DB you get an automatic view per table and fields are defined as measures or dimensions by default. is there any way to do that on cube? (other then implementing it ourselves)

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Research direction
Search Cube documentation for automatic schema generation features, or explore the codebase to see if there is any existing support for auto generating schemas from database metadata.
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Domain
backend
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Feature
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3
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Over 1 week
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Active
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Clear
Prerequisites
SQLCube.js concepts
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40