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by GoToRO 515 days ago
What does Dbt Labs do? I've read their website, but I need a concrete example.
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CaveTech 515 days ago
In simplest of terms, it's a templating and orchestration layer for data pipelines which which compiles purely into SQL expressions.
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grajaganDev 515 days ago
How is it different from Looker and LookML?
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anon84873628 515 days ago
Looker is mostly a reporting tool. LookML let's you define some transformations that happen at query time. There is a little bit of materialization functionality with the PDTs, but that doesn't seem intended as a replacement for other "ELT" tools.
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ra 515 days ago
Think of dbt as yarn for SQL, only the SQL is built from jinja templates.

dbtlabs also sells dbt cloud, which provides a runtime for your dbt projects.

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aradox66 515 days ago
It takes your data operation from 1995 to 2025
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ewuhic 514 days ago
Given replies to this comment, I cannot think of a more useless thing. Yarn for sql in cloud, why?? Why is that needed???
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