How to design a dbt model from scratch

When I was researching the Ultimate Guide to dbt, I was shocked by the lack of material around actually building models from scratch. Not the exact steps to take in the tool — that is all covered in innumerable blogs and tutorials. I mean how do you know the right design? How do you make sure your stakeholders will use that model? How can you make sure it will be trusted and understood?

When we deploy new models without …

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