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Your home base for learning dbt, connecting with the community and contributing to the craft of analytics engineering

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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.

Docs

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

Supported data platforms

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

Community spotlight

The Original dbt-athena Maintainers

The original dbt-athena Maintainers is a group of 5 people—Jérémy Guiselin, Mattia, Jesse Dobbelaere, Serhii Dimchenko, and Nicola...

The latest from the Developer Blog

Introducing the dbt MCP Server – Bringing Structured Data to AI Workflows and Agents

April 21, 2025 · 15 minute read

We’re open‑sourcing an experimental dbt MCP server so LLMs and agents can discover, query, and run your dbt project.

Establishing dbt Cloud: Securing your account through SSO & RBAC

April 17, 2025 · 8 minute read

How to configure dbt Cloud with SSO & RBAC

Getting Started with git Branching Strategies and dbt

March 10, 2025 · 32 minute read

How to configure dbt Cloud with common git strategies

Parser, Better, Faster, Stronger: A peek at the new dbt engine

February 19, 2025 · 4 minute read

Remember how dbt felt when you had a small project? You pressed enter and stuff just happened immediately? We're bringing that back.

The key technologies behind SQL Comprehension

January 24, 2025 · 15 minute read

The technologies that power the three levels of SQL comprehension.

The Three Levels of SQL Comprehension: What they are and why you need to know about them

January 23, 2025 · 8 minute read

Parsers, compilers, executors, oh my! What it means when we talk about 'understanding SQL'.

From the dbt Community

Join the community

Connect with data practitioners from around the world.

Become a contributor

Help build the resources the community uses to solve hard problems.

Open source dbt Packages

Take your dbt project to the next level with community built packages.

Use dbt like a pro

Best practices

Learn battle tested strategies for analytics engineering best practices.

Community forum

Get help and swap knowledge in the async forum.

Online courses

Structured video courses to give you a deep dive into analytics engineering topics.