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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.

Supported data platforms

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

Audit_helper in dbt: Bringing data auditing to a higher level

March 24, 2023 · 14 minute read

Migrations from stored procedures to dbt become easier with the audit_helper package. The team at Indicium Tech breaksdown the how and why...

BigQuery ingestion-time partitioning and partition copy with dbt

March 10, 2023 · 7 minute read

How one data team saved significant BigQuery run time (and therefore $$) by building ingestion-time partitioning support to dbt's...

Tips and advice to study for, and pass, the dbt Certification exam

February 16, 2023 · 8 minute read

So you want to make it *official*? Callie and Jade, analytics engineering at Montreal Analytics, share their advice on passing the dbt...

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...

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Open source dbt Packages

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Guides

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Online courses

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