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Data Engineering with dbt

You're reading from  Data Engineering with dbt

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246284
Pages 578 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Roberto Zagni Roberto Zagni
Profile icon Roberto Zagni

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: The Foundations of Data Engineering
2. Chapter 1: The Basics of SQL to Transform Data 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

Experimenting with SQL in dbt Cloud

Now that you have dbt Cloud set up and connected to your Snowflake data platform, you can use the dbt IDE to issue SQL commands and see the results. The Preview feature allows you to easily test models while you are developing them, but it can also be used to just run any SQL on your DB.

In this section, we are going to run some of the examples we saw in the previous chapter so that you can get used to the dbt interface and experiment with SQL if you are not familiar with it.

Exploring the dbt Cloud IDE

Let’s start by looking at the dbt Cloud IDE. The default layout of the IDE is vertically divided in two; on the left, you have the VC area and below it a folder structure that is used to organize the files of your dbt project, while on the right, there are the main editing and result areas.

The main area of the screen is again divided in two; at the top, there is the editor, where you edit the source code of your models, while in...

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