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Data Engineering with dbt

You're reading from   Data Engineering with dbt A practical guide to building a cloud-based, pragmatic, and dependable data platform with SQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246284
Length 578 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Roberto Zagni Roberto Zagni
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Foundations of Data Engineering
2. Chapter 1: The Basics of SQL to Transform Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your dbt Cloud Development Environment 4. Chapter 3: Data Modeling for Data Engineering 5. Chapter 4: Analytics Engineering as the New Core of Data Engineering 6. Chapter 5: Transforming Data with dbt 7. Part 2: Agile Data Engineering with dbt
8. Chapter 6: Writing Maintainable Code 9. Chapter 7: Working with Dimensional Data 10. Chapter 8: Delivering Consistency in Your Data 11. Chapter 9: Delivering Reliability in Your Data 12. Chapter 10: Agile Development 13. Chapter 11: Team Collaboration 14. Part 3: Hands-On Best Practices for Simple, Future-Proof Data Platforms
15. Chapter 12: Deployment, Execution, and Documentation Automation 16. Chapter 13: Moving Beyond the Basics 17. Chapter 14: Enhancing Software Quality 18. Chapter 15: Patterns for Frequent Use Cases 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing our stock tracking project

We have chosen to build a simple stock tracking platform to illustrate the dbt functionalities, as it can be initially reduced to a simple set of concepts and relations while offering multiple ways to add complexity and interesting requirements to develop in further iterations.

Using an example project that many people will relate to, we hope to provide easier understanding and involvement and maybe provide real value through the ability to start a project to track your stocks.

It is, in fact, quite a common situation that a person or a family ends up having more than one account and that there are tradable securities in these accounts. A common desire is to therefore have a global view of all the accounts.

With the advancement of fintech solutions, this is becoming simpler in modern portfolio applications if your accounts are in a single country, but you have them in different jurisdictions, then I wish you good luck, or you can roll...

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