Foundations of dbt

Introduction to dbt

Mike Metzger

Data Engineering Consultant

Course goals

• Understand core dbt concepts
• dbt practical applications
• Why it's essential for data professionals
• Navigate a dbt project
• Write & execute basic dbt models
• Gain familiarity with an extremely popular data engineering tool

Prerequisite knowledge

• SQL experience
• Command-line knowledge
• Data pipelines / data modeling

Interactive learning

Interactive learning - File picker

Interactive learning - Code Editor

Interactive learning - Terminal

Let's practice!

Introduction to dbt