There are other aspects that I find rather unknown; while there is likely a rational explanation, the platform doesn’t provide straightforward answers. Here are some learnings of mine while working with data extensions:
- You can only increase the character lenght for strings and numbers.
- You can get error updating filter. That is very mindblowing what is the actual cause.
- Exporting rows from a data extension doesn’t guarantee their successful import. For instance, I exported rows from Contact Builder, modified a single flag, and attempted to re-import the same data. However, an error occurred indicating that the date format was incorrect. When I tried to import same file in email studio it worked.
Importing in Contact Builder throws a validation error on the date field. The same file has been successfully imported via Email Studio.
Results: Inserted: 0 Updated: 0 ValidationErrors: Invalid Date: 16 Validation results have been logged to a delimited text file and attached to this message.
- You can only utilize the quick search functionality for fields that are designated as primary keys.
- You can refresh table records by changing pagination to another setting. Pagination is only available in contact builder.
- You can change data retention only when records are below 100M but even then I could not see that working (maybe there is lag). Best is to set everything when creating the data extension.
- Email studio is sorting folders and data extensions differently than contact builder. I can assume only that email studio is sorting alphabetically and contact builder by crated date.
- To change / see data extensions structure sometimes it is faster by accessing it via email studio.
- Retention settings only can be changed in Contact builder.
- Tracking tab is only accessible in the Email studio.
