Profile Set Up

Use the following within profiles.yml

---

base:
  target: dev
  outputs:
    dev:
      type: snowflake
      account: <ACCOUNT>
      role: <ROLE>
      user: <USERNAME>
      password: <PASSWORD>
      region: <REGION>
      database: BASE_DEV
      warehouse: <WAREHOUSE>
      schema: silver
      threads: 12
      client_session_keep_alive: False
      query_tag: <TAG>
    prod:
      type: snowflake
      account: <ACCOUNT>
      role: <ROLE>
      user: <USERNAME>
      password: <PASSWORD>
      region: <REGION>
      database: BASE
      warehouse: <WAREHOUSE>
      schema: silver
      threads: 12
      client_session_keep_alive: False
      query_tag: <TAG>

Variables

To control the creation of UDF or SP macros with dbt run:

• UPDATE_UDFS_AND_SPS

  • Default values are False

  • When True, executes all macros included in the on-run-start hooks within dbt_project.yml on model run as normal

  • When False, none of the on-run-start macros are executed on model run

  • Usage: dbt run --vars '{"UPDATE_UDFS_AND_SPS":True}' -m ...

Use a variable to heal a model incrementally:

• HEAL_MODEL

  • Default is FALSE (Boolean)

  • When FALSE, logic will be negated

  • When TRUE, heal logic will apply

  • Include heal in model tags within the config block for inclusion in the dbt_run_heal_models workflow, e.g. tags = 'heal'

  • Usage: dbt run --vars '{"HEAL_MODEL":True}' -m ...

Use a variable to negate incremental logic:

• Example use case: reload records in a curated complete table without a full-refresh, such as silver_bridge.complete_bridge_activity:
• HEAL_MODELS

  • Default is an empty array []

  • When item is included in var array [], incremental logic will be skipped for that CTE / code block

  • When item is not included in var array [] or does not match specified item in model, incremental logic will apply

  • Example set up: {% if is_incremental() and 'axelar' not in var('HEAL_MODELS') %}

  • Usage:

    • Single CTE: dbt run --vars '{"HEAL_MODELS":"axelar"}' -m ...
    • Multiple CTEs: dbt run --vars '{"HEAL_MODELS":["axelar","across","celer_cbridge"]}' -m ...

Use a variable to extend the incremental lookback period:

• LOOKBACK

  • Default is a string representing the specified time interval e.g. '12 hours', '7 days' etc.

  • Example set up: SELECT MAX(_inserted_timestamp) - INTERVAL '{{ var("LOOKBACK", "4 hours") }}'

  • Usage: dbt run --vars '{"LOOKBACK":"36 hours"}' -m ...

Applying Model Tags

Database / Schema level tags

Database and schema tags are applied via the add_database_or_schema_tags macro. These tags are inherited by their downstream objects. To add/modify tags call the appropriate tag set function within the macro.

{{ set_database_tag_value('SOME_DATABASE_TAG_KEY','SOME_DATABASE_TAG_VALUE') }}
{{ set_schema_tag_value('SOME_SCHEMA_TAG_KEY','SOME_SCHEMA_TAG_VALUE') }}

Model tags

To add/update a model's snowflake tags, add/modify the meta model property under config. Only table level tags are supported at this time via DBT.

{{ config(
    ...,
    meta={
        'database_tags':{
            'table': {
                'PURPOSE': 'SOME_PURPOSE'
            }
        }
    },
    ...
) }}

By default, model tags are pushed to Snowflake on each load. You can disable this by setting the UPDATE_SNOWFLAKE_TAGS project variable to False during a run.

dbt run --vars '{"UPDATE_SNOWFLAKE_TAGS":False}' -s models/core/core__fact_blocks.sql

Querying for existing tags on a model in snowflake

select *
from table(base.information_schema.tag_references('base.core.fact_blocks', 'table'));

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