dbt-snowflake - Meltano Hub

dbt Snowflake

dbt-snowflake from dbt-labs

The dbt-snowflake transformer is a plugin for running SQL-based transformations on data stored in your warehouse.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

If you haven't already, follow the initial steps of the Getting Started guide:

Installation and configuration

Add the dbt-snowflake transformer to your project using
```
meltano add
```
:

meltano add transformer dbt-snowflake

Configure the dbt-snowflake settings using
```
meltano config
```
:

meltano config dbt-snowflake set --interactive

Next steps

Follow the remaining steps of the Getting Started guide:

Transform loaded data for analysis

If you run into any issues, learn how to get help.

Capabilities

This plugin currently has no capabilities defined. If you know the capabilities required by this plugin, please contribute!

Settings

Settings for dbt itself can be configured through dbt_project.yml as usual, which can be found at transform/dbt_project.yml in your Meltano project. dbt also has adapter-specific documentation for Snowflake.

The dbt-snowflake settings that are known to Meltano are documented below. To quickly find the setting you're looking for, click on any setting name from the list:

project_dir
profiles_dir
account
user
password
role
warehouse
database
schema

You can override these settings or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the settings key.

Please consider adding any settings you have defined locally to this definition on MeltanoHub by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the settings for this plugin.

Projects Directory (project_dir)

Environment variable: DBT_SNOWFLAKE_PROJECT_DIR
Default Value: $MELTANO_PROJECT_ROOT/transform

[No description provided.]

Profiles Directory (profiles_dir)

Environment variable: DBT_SNOWFLAKE_PROFILES_DIR
Default Value: $MELTANO_PROJECT_ROOT/transform/profiles/snowflake

[No description provided.]

Account (account)

Environment variable: DBT_SNOWFLAKE_ACCOUNT

The snowflake account to connect to.

User (user)

Environment variable: DBT_SNOWFLAKE_USER

The user to connect as.

Password (password)

Environment variable: DBT_SNOWFLAKE_PASSWORD

The user password to authenticate with.

Role (role)

Environment variable: DBT_SNOWFLAKE_ROLE

The user role to assume.

Warehouse (warehouse)

Environment variable: DBT_SNOWFLAKE_WAREHOUSE

The compute warehouse to use when building models.

Database (database)

Environment variable: DBT_SNOWFLAKE_DATABASE

The database to create models in.

Schema (schema)

Environment variable: DBT_SNOWFLAKE_SCHEMA

The schema to build models into by default.

Something missing?

This page is generated from a YAML file that you can contribute changes to.

Edit it on GitHub!

Looking for help?

If you're having trouble getting the dbt-snowflake transformer to work, look for an existing issue in its repository, file a new issue, or join the Meltano Slack community and ask for help in the

#plugins-general

channel.

Install

meltano add transformer dbt-snowflake

Homepage

Maintenance Status

Repo

https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake

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