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DBT supports hooks, which are a mechanism for running operations at different points of the execution of your DBT DAG. This is useful for running operations like adding a record to an audit table, running specific reports, and more.

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DBT is a tool to simplify populating the relationships between different tables. With DBT, you can specify the queries used to create your tables, as well as parameterizing portions of those queries. You can also add data tests.

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I had a visit with my mother recently where she introduced me to the idea of Sator Squares. It’s a five letter acrostic, popular in ancient Rome, and originally rediscovered during the excavation of Pompei and Herculaneum. It has the interesting property that transposition of the matrix is an identity operation.

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