Introduction — What is dbt?

dbt (data build tool) is the open-source workflow that turns SQL SELECT statements into production-grade data pipelines. Each .sql file in your project becomes a model — a table or view in your warehouse, ordered automatically by a dependency graph (the DAG).

In this introduction you will learn what dbt does, how dbt run works, and how the DAG keeps your data pipelines correct. You will then move on to building, testing, and documenting models on a real (in-browser) e-commerce dbt project.