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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

Building the REF layer with the dimensional data

Let’s continue building the security info dimension by building the REF model for it.

Let’s do it:

  1. Create a new file named REF_ABC_BANK_SECURITY_INFO.sql in the models/refined folder.
  2. Enter the following code in the file:
    WITH
    current_from_snapshot as (
        SELECT *
        FROM {{ ref('SNSH_ABC_BANK_SECURITY_INFO') }}
        WHERE DBT_VALID_TO is null
    )
    SELECT *
    FROM current_from_snapshot

You can see that the content of this file is pretty much the same as the REF model we created earlier for the REF model of the position fact.

We have created our REF model, so build it with the following code:

dbt build -s REF_ABC_BANK_SECURITY_INFO

Looking at the columns in the model, we can see that there are the DBT_SCD_ID, DBT_UPDATED_AT, DBT_VALID_FROM, and DBT_VALID_TO technical columns, which are not so useful outside of the snapshot.

We can...

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