4.1.2 - What is dbt?

Last updated Feb 16, 2025

🕓 Estimated time spent on this lesson | ~20 min

Youtube Video | ~7 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsKuETFJr54&list=PL3MmuxUbc_hJed7dXYoJw8DoCuVHhGEQb&index=34

✍️ In this video we learn about dbt and how it can help us transform and deploy analytical code. Also, how dbt introduces software engineering practices into our workflow, such as testing, documentation, and version control. Additionally, there are two main ways of using dbt: dbt core (open source) and dbt cloud (SaaS application).

❓What is dbt? dbt will sit in your data warehouse and will transform your data into something that is useful for the data consumers, like a BI tool.

dbt - Transform data in your warehouseTransform data in your warehouse

Option A with BigQuery