How to turn a 1000-line messy SQL into a modular, & easy-to-maintain data pipeline?
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FEBRUARY 3, 2025
1. Introduction 2. Split your SQL into smaller parts 2.1. Start with a baseline validation to ensure that your changes do not change the output too much 2.2. Split your CTAs/Subquery into separate functions (or models if using dbt) 2.3. Unit test your functions for maintainability and evolution of logic 3. Conclusion 4. Required reading 1. Introduction If you’ve been in the data space long enough, you would have come across really long SQL scripts that someone had written years ago.
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