Learn about the reasons behind dbt's existence and how it's used to create data transformation projects.

Foundations of dbt

Running the dbt command

Introducing dbt

Version of dbt

Getting help

Users of dbt

Creating a dbt project

Initializing a dbt project

Creating a project profile

Welcome to dbt

Get into the true substance of dbt by working with data models and creating SQL based models within dbt. Learn about basic SQL models, define dependencies, update, and troubleshoot various model issues. 

Working with a first project

Steps of a dbt workflow

dbt project workflow

nyc_yellow_taxi:
  outputs:
    dev:
      type: duckdb
      path: dbt.duckdb
  target: dev



# Name your project! Project names should contain only lowercase characters
# and underscores. A good package name should reflect your organization's
# name or the intended use of these models
name: 'nyc_yellow_taxi'
version: '1.0.0'
config-version: 2

# This setting configures which "profile" dbt uses for this project.
profile: 'nyc_yellow_taxi'

# These configurations specify where dbt should look for different types of files.
# The `model-paths` config, for example, states that models in this project can be
# found in the "models/" directory. You probably won't need to change these!
model-paths: ["models"]
analysis-paths: ["analyses"]
test-paths: ["tests"]
seed-paths: ["seeds"]
macro-paths: ["macros"]
snapshot-paths: ["snapshots"]

target-path: "target"  # directory which will store compiled SQL files
clean-targets:         # directories to be removed by `dbt clean`
  - "target"
  - "dbt_packages"


# Configuring models
# Full documentation: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/configuring-models

# In this example config, we tell dbt to build all models in the example/
# directory as views. These settings can be overridden in the individual model
# files using the `{{ config(...) }}` macro.
models:
  nyc_yellow_taxi:
  # Config indicated by + and applies to all files under models/example/
    taxi_rides:
    +materialized: view
    


with source_data as (
    -- Add the query as described to generate the data model
    ____
)

select * from source_data


#!/usr/bin/env python3
import duckdb
con = duckdb.connect('dbt.duckdb', read_only=True)
print(con.sql('select * from taxi_rides_raw limit 10'))
print(con.sql('select count(*) as total_rides from taxi_rides_raw'))
if (con.execute('select count(*) as total_rides from taxi_rides_raw').fetchall()[0][0] == 300000):
  with open('/home/repl/workspace/successful_data_check', 'w') as f:
    f.write('300000')


Run the following commands in the terminal:
dbt run
./datacheck



# Name your project! Project names should contain only lowercase characters
# and underscores. A good package name should reflect your organization's
# name or the intended use of these models
name: 'nyc_yellow_taxi'
version: '1.0.0'
config-version: 2

# This setting configures which "profile" dbt uses for this project.
profile: 'nyc_yellow_taxi'

# These configurations specify where dbt should look for different types of files.
# The `model-paths` config, for example, states that models in this project can be
# found in the "models/" directory. You probably won't need to change these!
model-paths: ["models"]
analysis-paths: ["analyses"]
test-paths: ["tests"]
seed-paths: ["seeds"]
macro-paths: ["macros"]
snapshot-paths: ["snapshots"]

target-path: "target"  # directory which will store compiled SQL files
clean-targets:         # directories to be removed by `dbt clean`
  - "target"
  - "dbt_packages"


# Configuring models
# Full documentation: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/configuring-models

# In this example config, we tell dbt to build all models in the example/
# directory as views. These settings can be overridden in the individual model
# files using the `{{ config(...) }}` macro.
models:
  nyc_yellow_taxi:
  # Config indicated by + and applies to all files under models/example/
    taxi_rides:
    +materialized: view


with source_data as (
    -- Add the query as described to generate the data model
    select * from read_parquet('yellow_tripdata_2023-01-partial.parquet')
)

select * from source_data


Run the following commands in the terminal:
dbt run
./datacheck   


Running a project

What is a dbt model?

Options

True of a data model

False of a data model

Features of a data model


# Name your project! Project names should contain only lowercase characters
# and underscores. A good package name should reflect your organization's
# name or the intended use of these models
name: 'nyc_yellow_taxi'
version: '1.0.0'
config-version: 2

# This setting configures which "profile" dbt uses for this project.
profile: 'nyc_yellow_taxi'

# These configurations specify where dbt should look for different types of files.
# The `model-paths` config, for example, states that models in this project can be
# found in the "models/" directory. You probably won't need to change these!
model-paths: ["models"]
analysis-paths: ["analyses"]
test-paths: ["tests"]
seed-paths: ["seeds"]
macro-paths: ["macros"]
snapshot-paths: ["snapshots"]

target-path: "target"  # directory which will store compiled SQL files
clean-targets:         # directories to be removed by `dbt clean`
  - "target"
  - "dbt_packages"


# Configuring models
# Full documentation: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/configuring-models

# In this example config, we tell dbt to build all models in the example/
# directory as views. These settings can be overridden in the individual model
# files using the `{{ config(...) }}` macro.
#models:
#  nyc_yellow_taxi:
#  # Config indicated by + and applies to all files under models/example/
#    taxi_rides:
#    +materialized: view
    


Run the following command in the terminal:

dbt run


select * from 'yellow_tripdata_2023-01-partial.parquet'


Run the following command in the terminal:

cd nyc_yellow_taxi
dbt run

Creating a dbt model

Updating dbt models

Project

Model only

Config files


-- Update with SQL to return requested information
select 
  date_part('day', tpep_pickup_datetime) as day,
  ____ as total_cc_riders
from taxi_rides_raw
-- Refer to the Payment_type in schema doc
where payment_type = ____
group by day


#!/usr/bin/env python3
import duckdb
con = duckdb.connect('dbt.duckdb', read_only=True)
print(con.sql('select * from total_creditcard_riders_by_day'))
if (con.execute('select * as total_rides from total_creditcard_riders_by_day').fetchall()[0][1] == 54743):
  with open('/home/repl/workspace/successful_data_check', 'w') as f:
    f.write('54743')
    



-- Update with SQL to return requested information
select 
   date_part('day', tpep_pickup_datetime) as day,
   count(*) as total_cc_riders
from taxi_rides_raw
-- Refer to the Payment_type in schema doc
where payment_type = 1
group by day


Updating a dbt model

dbt projects and models

Learn how to use Jinja templates to simplify dbt models and define hierarchical dependencies with the `ref` function to ensure correct model execution.

Creating and generating dbt documentation

dbt docs Command Options

dbt documentation flow

Creating dbt documentation

Jinja templates

What can Jinja do?

Process a Jinja template

Hierarchical models in dbt

Hierarchical model creation

Updating model hierarchies

More on dbt models

This course introduces you to dbt (data build tool), a popular tool that has given rise to analytics engineering for the creation and maintenance of extract, transform, and load (ELT) pipelines. You'll learn to build data warehouses, perform data modeling and transformations, and design tests to perform data validation. You'll use SQL and shell commands to perform a variety of tasks with dbt, along with discovering how to generate documentation for your warehouse users!

dbt, or the data build tool, has taken the data world by storm. This course introduces you to the concepts, terminology, and methods of using dbt to implement an example data warehouse. You'll gain an understanding of what dbt is, when it should be used, and best practices when implementing data warehousing. You will work with real datasets and perform extract, load, and transform operations as implemented in data analyst, data engineering, and analytics engineering roles.

Learners will develop the skills to define a data warehouse from scratch, model and transform data, and build tests! This course will provide you with a solid foundation to build upon in your dbt journey, regardless of the type of data warehouse you intend to implement. Gain confidence about how and when to use dbt by working through exercises using SQL and shell commands.

Data Warehousing Concepts

Introduction to Shell

Joining Data in SQL

This course introduces dbt for data modeling, transformations, testing, and building documentation.

Config files

Introduction to dbt

Hands-on interactive exercise