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Analysts, Data Engineers and all data crew are always eager to offer the best set of analytical tools, qualified data, a good performance and agility when delivering data products to the user areas. And when it comes to KPI’s, the interest is a bit higher, because if you’re not tracking your indicators correctly, you may […]

June 20, 2023

We have a small project with four layers.  When we added relationship tests between project layers, we started getting false test failures. The raw layer is a bit like dbt’s stage layer, we do renaming and some very simple changes here and have validation for duplicates and nulls. The validation layer we build dims and […]

May 1, 2023

Anyone who has worked with dbt knows that one of the most powerful features is packages. Packages allow you to reuse code across multiple projects in an organization. Packages can be installed from other projects in your organization, or by using the dbt hub you can install packages from the open-source community and Fishtown Analytics. [...]

January 12, 2021

If there’s one thing we’re tired of this year, it’s canned marketing campaigns filled with false sentiment. We know what they really mean: “We’re in This Together”  Please continue to buy our stuff. "Now, more than ever.. " What we’re selling is still important. And the worst offender: “In these unprecedented times..” I will get [...]

December 15, 2020