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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

Meagan Palmer

I first started using dbt in 2016 or 2017 (I can't remember exactly). Since then, I have moved into data and analytics consulting and have...

The latest from the Developer Blog

How Hybrid Mesh unlocks dbt collaboration at scale

September 30, 2024 · 6 minute read

A deep-dive into the Hybrid Mesh pattern for enabling collaboration between domain teams using dbt Core and dbt Cloud.

How to build a Semantic Layer in pieces: step-by-step for busy analytics engineers

July 10, 2024 · 9 minute read

A deep-dive into the steps you can take to start building your dbt Semantic Layer _today_, without doing a big migration.

Putting Your DAG on the internet

June 14, 2024 · 5 minute read

Use dbt and Snowflake's external access integrations to allow Snowflake Python models access the internet.

Up and Running with Azure Synapse on dbt Cloud

May 17, 2024 · 10 minute read

Some tips for getting started with Azure Synapse on dbt Cloud

Unit testing in dbt for test-driven development

May 7, 2024 · 9 minute read

In dbt v1.8, we introduce support for unit testing. In this blog post, Doug will show how to use them

Conversational Analytics: A Natural Language Interface to your Snowflake Data

May 2, 2024 · 11 minute read

A tutorial on building a natural language interface to your Snowflake data using dbt Cloud Semantic Layer with Snowflake Cortex and...

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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.