Skip to main content

Welcome to the dbt Developer Hub

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

Popular resources

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

David Effiong

I started my career as a data analyst but I currently work as a data engineer in a financial Institution. I have experience working in...

The latest from the Developer Blog

Accelerate your documentation workflow: Generate docs for whole folders at once

May 17, 2023 · 9 minute read

For columns that are reused across models, Mikael walks through a DRY-method to make documentation easier, using the dbt Codegen package...

Data engineers + dbt v1.5: Evolving the craft for scale

May 1, 2023 · 11 minute read

Where have we been? Where are we going? What does the future hold for data engineers? How can dbt help you get there?

Why we're deprecating the dbt_metrics package

April 26, 2023 · 5 minute read

We are bidding adieu to dbt_metrics and moving forward with MetricFlow! Discover how this new source-available project lays the foundation...

How we reduced a 6-hour runtime in Alteryx to 9 minutes with dbt and Snowflake

April 25, 2023 · 12 minute read

Learn how the folks at Indicium Tech leveraged the modularity and visibility features of dbt to reduce a 6-hour runtime in Alteryx to only...

Building a Kimball dimensional model with dbt

April 20, 2023 · 19 minute read

Tackle dimensional modeling in dbt with this step-by-step tutorial from Jonathan Neo of Canva.

dbt Squared: Leveraging dbt Core and dbt Cloud together at scale

April 17, 2023 · 11 minute read

How do you effectively scale dbt? João Antunes from Roche walks through their multi-tool journey.

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

Guides

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.