dbt
Transform data in your warehouse
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3-0The Panel's Take
dbt (data build tool) transforms data inside your warehouse using SQL. Version control, testing, and documentation for analytics engineering. The standard for data transformation.
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dbt verdict: SHIP 🚀 3 ships · 0 skips from the expert panel Full review: shiporskip.io/tool/dbt
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“SQL-based transformation with version control, testing, and documentation. dbt defined modern analytics engineering.”
“Every data team should use dbt. The testing and documentation alone justify it.”
“dbt standardized how data teams work. The semantic layer and metrics store are the next frontier.”