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dbt Cloud is the fastest and most reliable way to deploy your dbt jobs and dbt Core is a powerful open-source tool for data transformations. With the help of a sample project, learn how to quickly start using dbt and one of the most common data platforms.

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Build, test, document, and promote adapters

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Airflow and dbt Cloud

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Quickstart for dbt Cloud and Azure Synapse Analytics

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Quickstart for dbt Cloud and BigQuery

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Building dbt packages

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Quickstart for dbt Core using GitHub Codespaces

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Move from dbt Core to dbt Cloud: What you need to know

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Move from dbt Core to dbt Cloud: Get started

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Move from dbt Core to dbt Cloud: Optimization tips

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dbt Cloud
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Create new materializations

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Customizing CI/CD with custom pipelines

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Customize dbt models database, schema, and alias

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Quickstart for dbt Cloud and Databricks

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dbt Cloud
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Optimize and troubleshoot dbt models on Databricks

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Databricks
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Leverage dbt Cloud to generate analytics and ML-ready pipelines with SQL and Python with Snowflake

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Snowflake
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Debug errors

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dbt Cloud
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Debug schema names

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dbt Core
Troubleshooting
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Build a data lakehouse with dbt Core and Dremio Cloud

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Dremio
dbt Core
Intermediate
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Quickstart for the dbt Explorer workshop

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Quickstart
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Use Databricks workflows to run dbt Cloud jobs

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Databricks
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Quickstart for dbt Core from a manual install

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Quickstart with dbt Mesh

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Quickstart for dbt Cloud and Microsoft Fabric

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dbt Cloud
Quickstart
Beginner
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Migrate from dbt-spark to dbt-databricks

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Migration
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dbt Cloud
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Migrate from DDL, DML, and stored procedures

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Migration
dbt Core
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Productionize your dbt Databricks project

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Databricks
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Quickstart for dbt Cloud and Redshift

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Redshift
dbt Cloud
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Refactoring legacy SQL to dbt

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SQL
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Create Datadog events from dbt Cloud results

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Webhooks
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Trigger PagerDuty alarms when dbt Cloud jobs fail

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Webhooks
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Get started with Continuous Integration tests

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Orchestration
CI
Intermediate
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Set up your dbt project with Databricks

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Databricks
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dbt Cloud
Intermediate
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Legacy dbt Semantic Layer migration guide

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Semantic Layer
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Integrate with dbt Semantic Layer using best practices

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Semantic Layer
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Quickstart for the dbt Cloud Semantic Layer and Snowflake

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Semantic Layer
Snowflake
dbt Cloud
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Quickstart for dbt Cloud and Snowflake

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dbt Cloud
Quickstart
Snowflake
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Quickstart for dbt Cloud and Starburst Galaxy

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dbt Cloud
Quickstart
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Use Jinja to improve your SQL code

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Jinja
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Post to Microsoft Teams when a job finishes

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Webhooks
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Refresh a Mode dashboard when a job completes

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Webhooks
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Refresh Tableau workbook with extracts after a job finishes

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Webhooks
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Post to Slack with error context when a job fails

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Webhooks
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