Product News

Aaron Raff 16 Jun 2022 June 16, 2022 Aaron Raff

Where we started... and where we're headed.

Nate Nunta 2 Jun 2022 June 2, 2022 Nate Nunta

A few words on the Cloud IDE, and how we’re planning to improve your experience in the coming months.

Julia Schottenstein 27 Apr 2022 April 27, 2022 Julia Schottenstein

Read this blog post to learn how dbt re-architected its scheduler to meet greater demand in dbt Cloud.

Connor McArthur 23 Feb 2022 February 23, 2022 Connor McArthur

Ongoing incidents with dbt Cloud have created slowness and lack of availability. Here is a recap of what happened and our plans to fix this.

Sai Maddali 9 Dec 2021 December 9, 2021 Sai Maddali

Last year we placed a big bet on foundational work — stability, reliability, and speed. 12 months, and a 600% increase in enterprise business later, we're focused on establishing dbt as the default standard for all enterprise data teams.

Jeremy Cohen 8 Dec 2021 December 8, 2021 Jeremy Cohen

dbt Core v1.0.0 has arrived. This major milestone enables users with production-grade workflows to safely and reliably build on top of dbt Core for years to come. Take a look at how we got here, and what's next for dbt.

Alexis Wong Baird 7 Dec 2021 December 7, 2021 Alexis Wong Baird

dbt Labs now offers five free courses for the emerging analytics engineer. Those new to dbt will find everything they need to get started (and badged!) in our dbt Learn Fundamentals course, while seasoned users can go deeper on topics like macros, materializations, and project refactoring.

Julia Schottenstein 26 Oct 2021 October 26, 2021 Julia Schottenstein

Your code doesn't have to do the same thing everywhere it runs. Separate code from configuration - and set config based on context.

Julia Schottenstein 30 Sep 2021 September 30, 2021 Julia Schottenstein

Choosing between continuous delivery and continuous deployment based on business needs

Jeremy Cohen 23 Sep 2021 September 23, 2021 Jeremy Cohen

It's finally (almost) here. The best way to get ready is by upgrading *now* to the latest & greatest that dbt Core has to offer

Tristan Handy 19 Aug 2021 August 19, 2021 Tristan Handy

With the DAG-in-the-IDE (now available to all dbt Cloud users), analytics engineers can seamlessly navigate the core structure of their dbt project with low friction and low cognitive load, making the entire development process more intuitive, pleasant, and efficient.

Amy Chen 2 Jun 2021 June 2, 2021 Amy Chen

Our friends at Materialize, the world’s first SQL-platform for processing streaming data, have officially launched a new dbt adapter, now available in open beta. Together, we’re opening the door for analysts to become first-class creators and users of streaming analytics.

Amy Deora 4 May 2021 May 4, 2021 Amy Deora

This SQL-first integration with Databricks means that analysts can build fully automated data pipelines in the same space that data engineers & data scientists work in their preferred frameworks.

Simon Ouderkirk 14 Jan 2021 January 14, 2021 Simon Ouderkirk

Staging is a ✨new✨ quarterly event that brings dbt users (that’s you!) into the product development lifecycle (where I spend my days 😅).

Jeremy Cohen 12 Nov 2020 November 12, 2020 Jeremy Cohen

Spark for analytics, for real: now in dbt Cloud

Tristan Handy 14 Oct 2020 October 14, 2020 Tristan Handy

Read this blog post to learn about the future of Fivetran and dbt.

Tristan Handy 22 Sep 2020 September 22, 2020 Tristan Handy

Two amazing companies in the modern data stack–Fivetran and Census–have launched major integrations with dbt. Here's why I'm excited about this.

Drew Banin 10 Jul 2019 July 10, 2019 Drew Banin

dbt v0.14.0 lays the foundation for dbt Develop -- a query editor which leverages the brand new dbt server.

Erica Louie 9 Apr 2019 April 9, 2019 Erica Louie

We just finished hosting the first dbt Learn. Here's why we did it, what we learned, and how you can get on board for the next one.

Drew Banin 16 Jan 2019 January 16, 2019 Drew Banin

The Fishtown Analytics team is incredibly excited to announce that we’ve re-launched Sinter as dbt Cloud!

Tristan Handy 16 Jan 2019 January 16, 2019 Tristan Handy

Sinter just became dbt Cloud. Why the re-brand?

Drew Banin 8 Jan 2019 January 8, 2019 Drew Banin

In dbt’s latest release, we made some significant changes to how dbt processes these DAGs, and we’re seeing that these changes make dbt projects run about 30% faster.

Tristan Handy 6 Sep 2018 September 6, 2018 Tristan Handy

The hardest thing about scaling a company is communication. Here's how our latest release will make data communication just a little bit easier.

Drew Banin 6 Sep 2018 September 6, 2018 Drew Banin

The newest release of dbt, v0.11, ships with a built-in data documentation website for your dbt project.

Drew Banin 3 Aug 2018 August 3, 2018 Drew Banin

dbt 0.10.2 introduces data model aliasing to help you maintain a more organized data warehouse design.

Connor McArthur 31 Jul 2018 July 31, 2018 Connor McArthur

Sinter is the best way to deploy dbt in production at most organizations. It features rich scheduling functionality, accessible run logs and error alerting, and customizable job definitions. Today, it just got better.

Drew Banin 9 Mar 2018 March 9, 2018 Drew Banin

Today, March 9th, 2018, dbt turned two years old. Wow. Here's where we've been and where we're heading.

Drew Banin 9 Jan 2018 January 9, 2018 Drew Banin

dbt version 0.9.1 adds support for late binding views in Redshift. This post will explain late binding views and explore some potential uses

Drew Banin 26 Oct 2017 October 26, 2017 Drew Banin

We’re thrilled to announce the release of dbt version 0.9.0, including support for pivoting out columns and ignoring incongruent tables.

Tristan Handy 17 Oct 2017 October 17, 2017 Tristan Handy

dbt (data build tool) enables data analysts and engineers to transform data in their warehouses.

Connor McArthur 18 Jul 2017 July 18, 2017 Connor McArthur

How to create historical records in your database using dbt data logs.

Tristan Handy 4 Jul 2017 July 4, 2017 Tristan Handy

dbt, our open source product for data modeling, is SQL-only. SQL can, by itself, accomplish a majority of analytical (non-data science) workloads.

Tristan Handy 11 May 2016 May 11, 2016 Tristan Handy

When a software engineer starts on a new project, her first step is almost always to survey the ecosystem of open source software that exists in the problem space.

Tristan Handy 5 Apr 2016 April 5, 2016 Tristan Handy

Over the past year, I and the folks at RJMetrics have had the opportunity to observe, and participate in, a significant evolution of the analytics ecosystem. The center of gravity in mature analytics organizations has shifted away from proprietary, end-to-end tools towards more composable solutions.