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Build and Manage dbt Models

Models are at the heart of every dbt project. This course will teach you how to build dbt models, organize them strategically within a dbt project, and follow widely-accepted patterns for optimizing and managing them as your project grows.

Andrew Bancroft - Pluralsight course - Build and Manage dbt Models
by Andrew Bancroft

What you'll learn

If you're working with dbt, you must know how to create models.

In this course, Build and Manage dbt Models, you'll understand how to make dbt models, organize them strategically within a dbt project, and follow widely accepted patterns and practices for managing them.

First, you'll explore how to design and organize dbt models for data transformation.

Next, you'll discover how to use configurations to customize dbt model behavior and how to implement materializations to optimize query performance.

Finally, you'll learn how to establish dependencies and ensure model integrity.

When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge to build dbt models and manage them as your project grows.

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Andrew Bancroft - Pluralsight course - Build and Manage dbt Models
Andrew Bancroft

Andrew Bancroft is a born learner, passionate about discovery and about sharing what he’s learned with others. He has embraced Swift for iOS development since day zero, and loves empowering developers to succeed at building iOS apps with Swift.

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