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When building dbt data transformation pipelines, organizing models into layers, implementing data tests, or setting up analytics engineering best practices.
references/details.md for deep patterns on incremental models, tests, docsA structured dbt project: layered SQL models, YAML docs/tests, incremental strategies, and reproducible analytics pipelines with clear lineage.
Use Cases
A data engineer joins a new team and must build a dbt project from scratch. Using this skill, they apply the medallion layering, naming prefixes, and dbt_project.yml template to organize staging, intermediate, and marts models. They avoid tech debt by cleaning in staging and extracting logic to macros. Result: a standardized, version-controlled analytics codebase that new members can understand quickly.
An analytics engineer maintains a 50M-row events table that full-refreshes nightly, causing slow runs. Using this skill's incremental strategy guidance, they convert the marts model to incremental with var-based date filtering and add not-null/unique tests plus column docs. Result: faster builds, enforced data quality, and clear lineage for stakeholders.
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