Towards Data Science

APRIL 5, 2023

A Guide to Maximize Your dbt Productivity in Visual Studio Code (Image from Unsplash ) If you are struggling to get VS Code and dbt to work well together, you are not alone. or higher and a virtual environment with dbt installed. A dbt project. This article does not go into detail on how to set up a dbt project.

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dbt Developer Hub

AUGUST 2, 2023

I was a kitten-only household, and dbt Labs was still Fishtown Analytics. A enterprise customer I was working with, Jetblue, asked me for help running their dbt models every 2 minutes to meet a 5 minute SLA. Today we are announcing that we now support Materialized Views in dbt. dbt-bigquery support will be coming in 1.7.

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dbt Developer Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At dbt we recently made the Semantic Layer Generally Available. The Semantic Layer lets teams define business metrics centrally, in dbt, and access them in multiple analytics tools through our semantic layer APIs. Transform the data into normalized tables with dbt. dbt’s bread and butter. Load the data into our warehouse.

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Start Data Engineering

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Introduction Pre-requisites Setting up the data-ops pipeline Snowflake Local development environment dbt cloud Connect to Snowflake Link to github repository Setup deployment(release/prod) environment Setup CI PR -> CI -> merge cycle Schedule jobs Host data documentation Conclusion and next steps Further reading References Introduction With companies (..)

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Monte Carlo

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Ah, dbt unit testing. Learn from these six common missteps in dbt unit testing so you can sidestep them in your own data quality journey. Table of Contents Wait, can’t I avoid mistakes by just skipping dbt unit testing? Define the test in your dbt model’s YAML file 2. Slightly annoying? Absolutely. Run the test 3.

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Start Data Engineering

APRIL 24, 2020

In this article we aim to go over the reasoning behind why someone might want to use dbt. If you are interested in learning dbt checkout this article. Some common questions from Data Engineers about dbt are it is not very clear to me why would I use dbt instead of running SQL queries on Airflow

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Hevo

MARCH 30, 2023

The dbt tool is used in organizations that have complex business logic behind their data. Currently, dbt […] It is helping data engineers to quickly transform data and support downstream processes with near-real-time data pipelines.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Monolithic data architecture is still the norm — even though there are clear drawbacks.” —  dbt labs In this article, I will introduce one of those techniques: contract testing. I will show how you can use dbt to create simple contract tests for your upstream sources and your dbt models’ public interfaces.

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Start Data Engineering

JANUARY 16, 2021

Introduction Setup Code Conditional logic to read from mock input Custom macro to test for equality Setup environment specific test Run ELT using dbt Conclusion Further reading Introduction With the recent advancements in data warehouses and tools like dbt most transformations(T of ELT) are being done directly in the data warehouse.

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phData: Data Engineering

OCTOBER 12, 2022

So you’ve heard all the talk around dbt , but now you’re working to determine if you should go with dbt Core or dbt Cloud and you’re wanting to know what advantages dbt Cloud has over the free dbt Core offering. However, dbt Cloud offers you much more than that.

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Workfall

JULY 4, 2023

Reading Time: 8 minutes In the world of data engineering, a mighty tool called DBT (Data Build Tool) comes to the rescue of modern data workflows. With DBT, they weave powerful SQL spells to create data models that capture the essence of their organization’s information. In DBT, transformations are like these artisans.

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dbt Developer Hub

APRIL 30, 2023

Where have tools like dbt met me and how exactly does it need to meet me going forward? dbt transformed ;) the way data teams interact with their data, and the people that depend on them. dbt transformed ;) the way data teams interact with their data, and the people that depend on them. Below, we’ll breakdown where dbt v1.5

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 17, 2023

Unit testing dbt models has always been one of the most critical missing pieces of the dbt ecosystem. This article proposes a new unit… Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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Data Engineering Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Summary One of the most impactful technologies for data analytics in recent years has been dbt. To help simplify the adoption and management of dbt projects Nandam Karthik helped create Optimus. To help simplify the adoption and management of dbt projects Nandam Karthik helped create Optimus.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

An experiment on BigQuery If you are processing a couple of MB or GB with your dbt model, this is not a post for you; you are doing just fine! However, the approach of twitter_likes_total could also have been a table configuration on dbt that only scans the twitter_likes_monthly . GB and the daily load scans 536.6 So from 869.91

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dbt Developer Hub

JULY 2, 2023

dbt Cloud: the operating system for Data Vault ​ There are many tools that can be used to implement your Data Vault project but dbt Cloud with its rich set of features provides the functionalities that make the difference by accelerating your project end to end, saving you the trouble of jumping from one tool to another.

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Workfall

AUGUST 14, 2023

Two powerful tools that have emerged to simplify the management of data pipelines are DBT (Data Build Tool) and Airflow. In this blog, we will explore the benefits of using DBT and Airflow together and how they make data pipeline management easier than ever before. In this blog, we will cover: Understanding DBT and Airflow What is DBT?

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Towards Data Science

APRIL 28, 2023

A containerised version of the popular Jaffle Shop dbt project Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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Hevo

MARCH 31, 2023

dbt is a data transformation tool used by data engineers to process raw data within data warehouses. While dbt is a robust tool for transformation, you should be aware of the dbt commands to harness the power of dbt. Mastering dbt commands will let you run complex asks on dbt projects.

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dbt Developer Hub

MARCH 23, 2023

Introduction ​ It is common for analytics engineers (AE) and data analysts to have to refactor (or translate) SQLServer® Stored Procedures, Alteryx Workflows® or other modeling tools into dbt models, or even refactor a dbt model to update its data sources. packages : - package : dbt - labs/audit_helper version : 0.7.0

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We ran a $12K experiment to test the cost and performance of Serverless warehouses and dbt concurrent threads, and obtained unexpected results. DBT threads in particular effectively tune the parallelism of your job as it runs through your DAG. We did not use this since we are running with DBT).

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In this episode Zeeshan Qureshi and Michelle Ark share their experiences using DBT to manage the data warehouse for Shopify. Datafold integrates with all major data warehouses as well as frameworks such as Airflow & dbt and seamlessly plugs into CI workflows. You ultimately decided to standardize on DBT.

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dbt Developer Hub

JULY 17, 2023

Whether you are creating your pipelines into dbt for the first time or just adding a new model once in a while, good documentation and testing should always be a priority for you and your team. As a one-person Analytics team at Sage I had to create our dbt pipelines from the ground up. Why do we avoid it like the plague then?

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 25, 2023

A complete cheatsheet for selecting specific models when running dbt commands Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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dbt Developer Hub

JULY 19, 2022

Why use modular dbt models instead of stored procedures? ​ We work with many analytics teams to refactor their stored procedure code into dbt. Now that we’ve discussed why moving from stored procs to dbt can make sense for many analytics teams, let’s discuss how the process works in a bit more detail.

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databricks

JULY 17, 2023

For over a year now, Databricks and dbt Labs have been working together to realize the vision of simplified real-time analytics engineering, combining.

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Hevo

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Dbt (data build tool) is just like that. You can create your own transformations with dbt using SQL SELECT statements. ChatGPT has transformed the way businesses look at AI to support their functions. It has started showing its power by automating customer support and improving customer experience.

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databricks

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We are pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of support for orchestrating dbt projects in Databricks Workflows. Since the start of Public.

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dbt Developer Hub

JANUARY 14, 2023

Finally, I will use dbt Core for transformation. A transformation layer taking the source data loaded by my dlt functions and creating the tables necessary, handled by dbt. Transforming the data ​ For transforming I use my favorite solution, dbt Core. dbt ​ No surprises there. model_name } materialized in { m.

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dbt Developer Hub

JULY 13, 2022

dbt is idempotent - it recreates tables at runtime with the CREATE TABLE AS syntax. Because of this, the ability to access a full picture of historical outputs isn't intrinsic to dbt. All of these questions bubble up to our main theme: How can you capture historical versions of our data using dbt? Sorry, Joanne.

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dbt Developer Hub

AUGUST 2, 2022

At dbt Labs, we have best practices we like to follow for the development of dbt projects. That question becomes difficult to answer in large dbt projects. When dbt projects have hundreds of models, it's hard to know which models do not have any tests defined and aren't enforcing your conventions.

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Data Engineering Podcast

MAY 19, 2019

The data build tool (dbt) is designed to bring battle tested engineering practices to your analytics pipelines. In this episode Drew Banin, creator of dbt, explains how it got started, how it is designed, and how you can start using it today to create reliable and well-tested reports in your favorite data warehouse.

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Hevo

MARCH 10, 2023

dbt, an open-source software that converts raw data into analytics-ready datasets, has become popular recently. One of dbt’s significant benefit is its ability to create and distribute reusable code through dbt packages. This includes SQL queries, macros, […]

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dbt Developer Hub

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Airflow and dbt are often framed as either / or: You either build SQL transformations using Airflow’s SQL database operators (like SnowflakeOperator ), or develop them in a dbt project. You either orchestrate dbt models in Airflow, or you deploy them using dbt Cloud.

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Hevo

MARCH 31, 2023

To transform data, you need to build dbt models, which are simple […] It is an open-source tool that data analysts and engineers to transform data in a data warehouse efficiently. You can not only transform data but also test, deploy, and document your tasks.

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dbt Developer Hub

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

As we get closer to dbt v1.0 Even with all the new shinies on offer, upgrading can be daunting – you rely on dbt to power your analytics workflow and can’t afford to change things just to discover that your daily run doesn’t work anymore. This is the checklist I wish I had when I owned my last company’s dbt project. to 0.17.2,

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dbt Developer Hub

AUGUST 23, 2022

How can you do this with dbt? MIISKs in dbt ​ If this is your preferred modeling approach, dbt can absolutely support this workflow! In order to do this at scale, we’ll make use of the meta config of dbt model. Let’s dive in. How were surrogate keys managed in the past? This can lead to bottlenecks at runtime.

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