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Declare it, then build it
dbt calls every query a model. The data model is the blueprint: declared beside the code, and checked by the tests.
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Make the call
Eight situations an analytics engineer really faces: a request to model everything, a learner defined as a row, fees mid-build, three words for one learner, two definitions of award, credit for attending, reasons to split, and a question with no decision. Decide what you'd do; each answer explains why. Your answers stay in this browser.
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What makes it the same one
One learner, three keys, and a look-alike. Rules match most of them; a person decides the rest, and the decision becomes data and a test.