Mastering Dbt (Data Build Tool) - From Beginner To Pro
Date: 4 May 2025 | Posted by: AD-TEAM
Mastering Dbt (Data Build Tool) - From Beginner To Pro
Published 4/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 3.98 GB | Duration: 6h 46m
Analytics Engineering Bootcamp to take you from beginner to advanced dbt, and get hands-on with dbt Cloud!
What you'll learn
How to build a complete dbt project from scratch
The main benefits of dbt, and a bit of background as to how it came about
All of the dbt fundamentals: sources, models, tests, documentation, snapshots, seeds, macros, hooks, and operations
How to structure a dbt project
How to version control changes to your code with GitHub
Advanced dbt testing - creating your own custom singular & generic tests, setting severity, and setting warn/error thresholds
Advanced dbt data modelling - including incremental and ephemeral models and what type to use (& when)
Advanced dbt commands - how to use different selectors, different profiles, tags, indirect test selection and building a local dbt documents site
Advanced dbt jinja & macros - creating your own macros to use in hooks / functions / operations, using jinja for loops and variables, and the target function
How to deploy your project on dbt Cloud, how to use the dbt Cloud UI, and using environment variables
How to use tests & macros from external packages to supercharge your dbt project
Best practises to use when running a dbt project (based on lots of experience!)
How to create a complete setup for Mac or Windows: installing all of the tools and getting a dbt specific VSCode setup!
Requirements
Basic SQL
No Python experience needed
Mac / Windows machine which is capable of installing Python, Git, and VSCode (we'll run through all of this in the course!)
Description
Welcome to the 2023 Mastering dbt (data build tool) course!Thank you for taking the time to look at my course! I have over 7 years of experience across Analytics / Analytics Engineering / Data Science, including 4 years using dbt on a daily basis. I was also involved in the rollout of dbt in my time at Monzo.MY APPROACH TO THIS COURSE:This course is designed to take you from only needing beginner SQL to being comfortable with everything in dbt: from the basic data modelling right through to all of the advanced features such as creating custom tests and macros. We'll be doing this step by step, and build from the basics upwards.It's focused on practical outcomes - we won't be spending ages on database theory, or going into lots of detail on the dataset, instead we'll be aiming to get you up to advanced dbt levels as quickly as possible.For this course, we'll be using a free public dataset in Google BigQuery centred around a fictional eCommerce business.Use Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, or anything other than BigQuery? Don't worry! I've used dbt with both BigQuery and Snowflake myself and all of the knowledge you learn on this course will be transferable.The focus of this course is not around exploring the entire dataset - instead I've tried to keep it to the minimum number of data models needed to get the core concepts across.Access to this dataset is free, and the amount of data you'll be using in BigQuery will be free. I go into this a bit more in the course - but please don't worry about any additional costs.For every video where we're writing code, I've created lesson attachments with the final outputs. This means you can either code as you go along, or watch the videos and look at the handouts afterwards! I've also included some theory with these handouts to help hammer home the points made in the videos.This course isn't static! I'd love to hear your feedback and will be updating this course on an ongoing basis.COURSE STRUCTURE:This course focuses on first getting a good understanding of what problems dbt solves, then building a basic dbt project, before layering on more advanced concepts and finally deploying our project with dbt Cloud.IntroductionA bit of theory (
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