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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Monte Carlo

MAY 17, 2023

Get immediate feedback on the downstream impact of PRs, allowing them to thoroughly test their changes and prevent unintended consequences downstream. Most likely, you and the owner of any reports or dashboards the PR is powering will get into a pretty heated Slack exchange about “wrong data.” GitHub PRs break data pipelines.

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Monte Carlo

MAY 17, 2023

Get immediate feedback on the downstream impact of PRs, allowing them to thoroughly test their changes and prevent unintended consequences downstream. Most likely, you and the owner of any reports or dashboards the PR is powering will get into a pretty heated Slack exchange about “wrong data.” GitHub PRs break data pipelines.

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Data Engineering Podcast

AUGUST 3, 2021

Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/97things today to get your copy! Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/linode today and get a $100 credit to try out a Kubernetes cluster of your own. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/census today to get a free 14-day trial. RudderStack’s smart customer data pipeline is warehouse-first.

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dbt Developer Hub

MAY 9, 2022

❓ Who is this for: This is for advanced users of dbt Cloud that are interested in expanding their knowledge of the dbt API via an interactive Postman Collection. We only suggest diving into this once you have a strong knowledge of dbt + dbt Cloud. Please keep in mind that the collection is not an evergreen doc.

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dbt Developer Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

This article will go over how the DATEADD function works, the nuances of using it across the major cloud warehouses, and how to standardize the syntax variances using dbt macro. This allows you to add or subtract a certain period of time from a given start date. I've surrendered to just searching for the docs.

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Data Warehouse SQL Software Engineer Software Engineering 52

dbt Developer Hub

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You can follow along with Donny's data modeling technique for identity resolution in this dbt project repo. It includes a set of demo CSV files, which you can use as dbt seeds to test Donny's project for yourself. See above: Tasty, tasty jaffles. JaffleGaggle is growing rapidly and has just bought a CRM (yay!), Builder Beware!

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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. After getting over the initial terror, we talked through the use case and soon realized there was a better option.

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dbt Developer Hub

JANUARY 14, 2023

The real estate agencies do this so the interested parties reach out to them for clarification, and from there they can start a sales process. At the same time, the website with the ads is incentivised to allow this to continue as they get paid per ad, not per property. Finally, I will use dbt Core for transformation.

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dbt Developer Hub

APRIL 30, 2023

My KPIs are less about revenue and cost impact, and more about how many times I get yelled at this week and making that number go down and to the right. Where have tools like dbt met me and how exactly does it need to meet me going forward? Where have tools like dbt met me and how exactly does it need to meet me going forward?

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Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering Finance 64

dbt Developer Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Hi there, Before I get to the goods, I just wanted to quickly flag that Coalesce is less than 3 weeks away! ? What's New ​ dbt v1.0.0rc1: ​ Check out the #dbt-prereleases channel in the dbt Community Slack, and Jeremy's Discourse post ! dbt v0.21.1: ​ Check out the #dbt-prereleases channel in the dbt Community Slack!

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dbt Developer Hub

JULY 2, 2023

Given its modular structure that requires many joins to get the specific information, Data Vault is not intended as a final, presentation layer in your data warehouse. dbt's macros feature is a lifesaver in terms of templating your code. Data Vault follows the insert-only principle with incremental loading strategy.

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dbt Developer Hub

MARCH 9, 2022

Special Thanks: Emilie Schario, Matt Winkler dbt has done a great job of building an elegant, common interface between data engineers, analytics engineers, and any data-y role, by uniting our work on SQL. It was easy to make sense of this starting point for our work together. I like to call this interoperability a “baton pass.”

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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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Towards Data Science

JUNE 19, 2023

Commands When you encounter a new Compose project (using the Tech Slam ‘N Eggs demo project in the screenshots below), try these commands to get your bearings: Note: see this repository if you’d like to run Compose in a Docker container. mrsm compose run Registers the pipes and syncs them one-by-one.

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PostgreSQL SQL Python Project 80

Grouparoo

DECEMBER 13, 2021

One such use case we've been especially interested in is how to trigger a Grouparoo run based off the completion of a dbt run. This year we've watched dbt take off as the open source data transformation tool of choice and were excited for their 1.0 release this month ! However, App Refresh Query presents a simpler workflow.

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Monte Carlo

MAY 18, 2023

Just like Sherlock Holmes relied on his trusty magnifying glass to uncover hidden details, you too need powerful data lineage capabilities to get a better understanding of your data environment. A question to ask is how will these data lineage source solutions account for dbt models, Fivetran connectors, and their relationship to tables?

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Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 26, 2023

link] Editor’s Note: Last Call for Data Council & Get 30% off on Real-Time Analytical Summit - 2023 I’m excited to attend this year’s Data Council, Austin conference. dbt: State of Analytics Engineering dbt publishes the state of analytical [data???🤔] 🤔] engineering.

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dbt Developer Hub

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Packages are the easiest way for a dbt user to contribute code to the dbt community. This is a belief that I hold close as someone who is a contributor to packages and has helped many partners create their own during my time here at dbt Labs. So let’s get started on your journey. What is a package even?

Building 52

Building SQL Coding Datasets 52

Monte Carlo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Check out the docs to learn more. So, in Q2, we released new capabilities to support each level: Field-level: Root cause analysis often starts with analyzing the data itself. warehouse, lakehouse, or lake): while root cause may start at the field- or table-level for some incidents, others will require an assessment of upstream sources.

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dbt Developer Hub

APRIL 30, 2019

As the maintainers of dbt, and analytics consultants, at Fishtown Analytics (now dbt Labs) we build a lot of dbt projects. Instead, use this as a guide once you’ve already got an idea of what you’re building for how you should break the transformations up into separate dbt models. stg_braintree__customers.yml ).

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Christophe Blefari

OCTOBER 19, 2023

cross-project dependencies ( credits ) Over the last few years, dbt has become a de facto standard enabling companies to collaborate easily on data transformations. With dbt, you can apply software engineering practices to SQL development. So, yes, dbt is cool but there is a common pattern with it: you accumulate SQL queries.

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dbt Developer Hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Raising a dbt project is hard work. It certainly wasn’t without its challenges though — we remember the terrible twos, where we worked hard to just get the platform to walk straight. Once the project could dress and feed itself, we also worked hard to get buy-in from our colleagues who put their trust in our little project.

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dbt Developer Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The new dbt Certification Program has been created by dbt Labs to codify the data development best practices that enable safe, confident, and impactful use of dbt. Taking the Certification allows dbt users to get recognized for the skills they’ve honed, and stand out to organizations seeking dbt expertise.

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Christophe Blefari

MARCH 31, 2023

To be honest time flies and I’d have preferred to do more for the blog in the start of the year but my freelancing activities and my laziness took me so much. Like you ask for a VM and you don’t get a VM. It will start at $0.04 Then everyone started to freak out. But obviously it changed. for a slot hour.

Bytes 130

Bytes Data Google Cloud Education 130

Christophe Blefari

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Last week dbt Labs decided to change the pricing of their Cloud offering. In a nutshell, dbt Cloud pricing is per seat based, which means you pay for each dbt developer. Let's go deeper than this to list what are today the options out there to schedule dbt in production. dbt, a small reminder Everyone—incl.

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Datakin

OCTOBER 14, 2021

dbt is an amazing way to transform data within a data warehouse. If you use Datakin to observe your dbt models as they run, you can always know exactly where your datasets came from and how they were created. This is a quick tutorial that can show you how to observe dbt pipelines with Datakin. dbt/profiles.yml.

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Towards Data Science

JUNE 2, 2023

How to improve the code quality of your dbt models with unit tests and TDD All you need to know to start unit testing your dbt SQL models Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash If you are a data or analytics engineer, you are probably comfortable writing SQL models and testing for data quality with dbt tests.

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Coding SQL Software Engineer Software Engineering 73

Christophe Blefari

MAY 12, 2023

Let's start with with my newly created podcast Minds of Data. In Google's Keynote AI gets a 26 minutes segment and then all the derivations lasting for 2h. Even if as human we want to send models in the arena to get the most performant one, or masturbate ourselves comparing the size of parameters.

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Data Data Storage SQL Coding 130

Monte Carlo

AUGUST 30, 2023

And one of the most popular approaches is dbt testing. dbt (data build tool) is a SQL-based command-line tool that offers native testing features. But there’s a lot to understand in order to both create the most value from your dbt tests and avoid leaning too heavily on a time-intensive process.

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SQL Datasets Database High Quality Data 52

Meltano

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

If you’re working with dbt , you need to check these five packages out. They supercharge the dbt workflows of the meltano community members. Over 150 dbt packages are already on the dbt hub adding functionality to model data, test it, assert its quality, and more!

SQL 52

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dbt Developer Hub

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The work of communities can be found everywhere - in the cell phone that wakes you up, the machine that makes your coffee, the car that drives you to get better coffee, the magic app that brings you dinner, and the television that lulls you back to sleep. But it's hard to get a sense of how a thing behaves by looking at its current state.

Raw Data 52

Raw Data Metadata Database Datasets 52

dbt Developer Hub

MAY 18, 2022

If you're reading this article, it looks like you're wondering how you can better optimize your Redshift queries - and you're probably wondering how you can do that in conjunction with dbt. When you load data into Redshift, the data gets distributed between the offices. Let’s fix this once and for all! What are distribution styles?

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Towards Data Science

APRIL 26, 2023

The infrastructure often gets in the way though. We can start developing it directly in the cloud, but it would immediately bring us to some infra questions: where do we run it? The idea is to start from a Data Lake where our data are stored. Architecture of our system paired with a dbt project. Image from the authors.

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dbt Developer Hub

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Hello there, While I have a lot of fun things to share this month, I can't start with anything other than this: Yep, it's official: ? dbt will support metric definitions ? Jeremy (dbt PM) will share more about the metrics layer in his v1.0 dbt build is here! ? dbt Cloud v1.1.36 - v1.1.37 ​ Changelog + docs located here.

Metadata 52

Metadata BI Software Engineer Software Engineering 52

dbt Developer Hub

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

So let’s say that you have a business question, you have the raw data in your data warehouse , and you’ve got dbt up and running. You’re in the perfect position to get this curated dataset completed quickly! When a data engineer gets stuck writing a model, they’ll need to reach out to the analyst for some additional discovery.

Engineering 52

Engineering Raw Data Datasets BI 52

dbt Developer Hub

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Yes, very simply: by defining the uniqueness grain for a table with a primary key and enforcing it with a dbt test. Invalid data getting into your primary keys is one of the biggest data problems - it can lead to rows getting dropped or miscounted and for all kinds of weird results to pop into your data. Classic fanout.

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