dbt-snowflake - Meltano Hub

dbt Snowflake (EDK preview)

dbt-snowflake from dbt-labs

The dbt-snowflake utility

is an adapter-specific dbt transformer for running SQL-based transformations on data stored in your warehouse.

EDK Preview

This utility is in a preview stage of readiness. It is based upon our Extension Developer Kit (EDK) which is the new way to build and add plugins to Meltano Hub. This preview of dbt will replace the native transformer once it comes out of preview. In the meantime, we would appreciate any feedback in the EDK repo and in the dbt Extension repo.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

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

Installation and configuration

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

meltano add utility dbt-snowflake

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

meltano config dbt-snowflake set --interactive

Next steps

If you're running dbt for the first time in a new environment:

# create a starter dbt_project.yml file, a profiles.yml file, and models directory
meltano invoke dbt-snowflake:initialize

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:

skip_pre_invoke
type
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.

Skip Pre-invoke (skip_pre_invoke)

Environment variable: DBT_SNOWFLAKE_SKIP_PRE_INVOKE
Default Value: false

Whether to skip pre-invoke hooks which automatically run dbt clean and deps

dbt Profile type (type)

Environment variable: DBT_SNOWFLAKE_TYPE
Default Value: snowflake

[No description provided.]

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 utility 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 utility dbt-snowflake

Maintenance Status

Repo

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

Maintainer

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