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To defer or to clone, that is the question

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In this blog post, I’ll attempt to provide this guidance by answering these FAQs: What is dbt clone ? Should I defer or should I clone? They do this by bypassing expensive model re-computations – clone by eagerly copying an entire schema into the target schema, and defer by lazily referencing pre-built models in the source schema.

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Introducing the dbt Cloud API Postman Collection: a tool to help you scale your account management

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You can use this blog post as an entry point to this postman collection to help you automate previously manual tasks, such as managing dbt Cloud account infrastructure, creating dbt Cloud projects, database connections, and managing users. We only suggest diving into this once you have a strong knowledge of dbt + dbt Cloud.

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Optimizing Materialized Views with dbt

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For the sake of simplicity, when I refer to materialized views in this blog, I mean dynamic tables in Snowflake. For the sake of simplicity, when I refer to materialized views in this blog, I mean dynamic tables in Snowflake. This blog post is intended to be a high level, platform agnostic overview to get you started.

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More time coding, less time waiting: Mastering defer in dbt

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Luckily, dbt’s defer functionality allow you to only build what you care about when you need it, and nothing more. dbt Cloud now offers native support for this workflow in development, so it’s never been easier to master the defer feature in dbt! That’s exactly what defer does! That’s no good! dbt_dconnors.

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