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Coalesce 2022 from 5 perspectives
Read this blog post to learn about the five important perspectives gained from Coalesce 2022.
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Towards an Error-free UNION ALL
Union'ing two or more tables with a long list of columns can be an error-prone chore, which dbt + dbt_utils abstracts away.
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DATEADD SQL function across warehouses
DATEADD Function syntax varies across data warehouses. Learn how to standardize your syntax no matter the container.
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Surrogate key across warehouses
What's a surrogate key, and how can you generate them across BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, Snowflake and other data warehouses?
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A Love Letter to ETL Tools
Two fundamental technological advances, ETL tools and cloud data warehouses, enable analytics engineers to practice the ELT workflow.
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Data modeling techniques for more modularity
Explore practical examples of modular data modeling techniques from traditional to modern and modular techniques.
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The Case for the ELT Workflow
The tale of migrating from a stored procedure-based ELT workflow to an ELT data transformation workflow on BigQuery, and the 3x productivity gains that ensued.
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The role of dbt in BI reporting work
Reporting quality can make or break your data team's reputation - will your colleagues cherish your visualizations, or question their validity?
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Why Bother Data Cataloging?
Organize your organization's information with a high-quality data documentation process.
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