diff --git a/website/docs/best-practices/how-we-mesh/mesh-4-faqs.md b/website/docs/best-practices/how-we-mesh/mesh-4-faqs.md index 8e5817794b1..9889ebb9f69 100644 --- a/website/docs/best-practices/how-we-mesh/mesh-4-faqs.md +++ b/website/docs/best-practices/how-we-mesh/mesh-4-faqs.md @@ -188,13 +188,21 @@ We also expose some of this information in dbt Cloud itself in [jobs](/docs/depl + + +You can reference models in other accounts within the same data platform by leveraging the data-sharing capabilities of that platform, as long as the database identifier of the public model is consistent across the producer and consumer. + +For example, [Snowflake cross-account data shares](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/data-sharing-intro), [Databricks Unity Catalog across workspaces](https://docs.databricks.com/en/data-governance/unity-catalog/index.html), or multiple BigQuery projects. + + + ## Permissions and access The existence of projects that have at least one public model will be visible to everyone in the organization with [read-only access](/docs/cloud/manage-access/seats-and-users). -Private or protected models require a user to have read-only access on the specific project in order to see its existence. +Private or protected models require a user to have read-only access to the specific project to see its existence. @@ -223,7 +231,7 @@ Because dbt does not implicitly coordinate data warehouse `grants` with model-le -Not currently! But this is something we may evaluate for the future. +Not currently! But this is something we may evaluate in the future.