Ben Wendt's blog

Like everyone else, I do my best to read many books, and like many, I find it to be a challenge, not just in finding the time, but also I found after you’ve read enough books, especially non-fiction, a lot of the book seems like filler. Different books on the same subject will cover the same material, or the author will be needlessly verbose in covering a topic. I thought ‘if I just want to read this book for the content, not the style, could I shorten it with an ai tool to ease some of the pain points?’

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DBT has support for a wide variety of databases. So far, I’ve been using Google’s bigquery as the database for all of my DBT blog posts, so let’s try something different. For this demo I’ll use Apache Hive

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DBT supports hooks, which are a mechanism for running operations at different points of the execution of your DBT DAG. This is useful for running operations like adding a record to an audit table, running specific reports, and more.

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