All my Observable notebooks were broken this morning

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Hi all,

Following the release of the new Observable, the connector bigquery that we use to pull data at our company broke. It sounds like there is no bigquery connector built out. Is there plan to release that soon? In the meantime I will use old.observablehq.com as a fallback.

We are on a paid plan. My company relies on Observable for metrics and dashboards. It’s disruptive for my team to not be able to have a stable interface. I also did not get the announcement that there would be impact on my connector.

Thank you

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I have some broken notebooks aswell, shouldn’t be an official place to report those?

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Hi Martin, so sorry for the disruption. There were a lot of moving parts in this launch and we missed this.

While the BigQuery database connector didn’t make the launch yesterday, it is available now; we released it this morning. Please give it another shot and let us know if you encounter any further problems. (We’re using Arrow Database Connectivity now, so if you or anyone else wants to access a database on the list of available ADBC drivers, we should be able to add it fairly quickly.)

Please note that the DatabaseClient API now does query caching by default, and returns Arrow (Flechette) tables. You can disable caching by setting the cache option to false (e.g., const dwh = DatabaseClient("dwh", {cache: false});, and if you’re using SQL cells, switching to var:dwh as the database instead of dwh). You can convert Arrow tables to arrays of objects by calling table.toArray().

Let us know if we can offer any further assistance. You can reach us here or via email at support@observablehq.com and we love to help!