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What is dbt?

dbt enables data practitioners to adopt software engineering best practices and deploy modular, reliable analytics code.

Getting started guide

Learn how to set up dbt and build your first models. You will also test and document your project, and schedule a job.

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Discover everything dbt has to offer from the basics to advanced concepts.

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dbt connects to most major databases, data warehouses, data lakes, or query engines.

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How we structure our dbt projects

Our hands-on learnings for how to structure your dbt project for success and gain insights into the principles of analytics engineering.

The latest from the Developer Blog

Autoscaling CI: The intelligent Slim CI

January 25, 2023 · 10 minute read

How to make your dbt Cloud Slim CI process more intelligent and, as a result, enable faster continuous integration workflows.

How we cut our tests by 80% while increasing data quality: the power of aggregating test failures in dbt

January 24, 2023 · 7 minute read

A singular data quality test just failed...whew things are still ok — when *many* dbt tests fail, how do you make those failures...

Power up your data quality with grouped checks

January 17, 2023 · 7 minute read

Which of these numbers doesn't belong? [-1, 0, 1, null]. You can't judge data quality without data context, so our tools should enable as...

Making the leap from accountant to analytics engineer

December 15, 2022 · 9 minute read

The Foundry Program is an apprenticeship at dbt Labs designed to turn data newbies into fully-fledged analytics engineers over the course...

Introducing the dbt_project_evaluator: Automatically evaluate your dbt project for alignment with best practices

November 30, 2022 · 7 minute read

The dbt_project_evaluator is a dbt package created by the Professional Services team at dbt Labs to help analytics engineers automatically...

How to move data from spreadsheets into your data warehouse

November 23, 2022 · 10 minute read

A thankless, humble, and inevitable task: getting spreadsheet data into your data warehouse. Let's look at some of the different options,...

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Guides

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Community Forum

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Online courses

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