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Why Analytics Leaders Are Embracing Modern Data Platforms: A Look at dbt & Snowflake

by Kristi Smith Are you an analytics leader thinking about moving to a more modern data platform, but not sure where to start? Makes sense; there are a lot of options out there. Red Pill Analytics understands that analytics leaders are facing a tough challenge: how to transform raw data into insights while managing complex […]

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dbt, Modern Data Platform, Snowflake Computing, Strategy

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Behind the Error Message: Solving row_count package bug in dbt

By Tatum Brannan Photo by Photo by Ashley Batz on Unsplash Exploring dbt Test Features Struggling with the dbt row_count package bug? Follow our step-by-step guide to quickly resolve the issue and keep your data pipeline running smoothly. dbt provides a variety of intrinsic testing options. Among these, you’ll find fundamental tests like unique, not_null, accepted_values, and

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Data Engineering, dbt

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Clear the Clutter! Find and Drop Undead dbt-Created Tables

by Alyssa Kunau Photo by todd kent on Unsplash Clutter- What is it? Where did it come from? In this guide, I’ll show you how to find and drop undead DBT-created tables to clear clutter. By “db clutter” I mean unnecessary, unused objects living in your database. There’s gonna be some word clutter here. In this post I’m

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data cleaning, Databases, dbt

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Master dbt Testing: How to Avoid False Negatives when Testing Between Project Layers

We have a small project with four layers: 1. Raw — incoming raw data2. Validation —Relationship and data validations. Transformations into facts and dims3. Reporting — joining facts and dims to meet presentation requirements4. Business Application — presentation layer. Views, with security where needed, of the reporting objects When we added relationship tests between project

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Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, dbt