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Oh, someone else below suggested that DBT in OP may be this: https://docs.getdbt.com/ https://docs.getdbt.com/ . Well... I don't know anything about this tool,

Oh, someone else below suggested that DBT in OP may be this: https://docs.getdbt.com/ https://docs.getdbt.com/ . Well... I don't know anything about this tool, but from cursory reading, this is the correctness kind of testing that is meant to examine whether the way you defined the schema actually leads to the results you expect in the data. Well... it's not an interesting kind of testing, at least not for me. So, I don't know much about it. Also, while, obviously, I'm not familiar with this newer tool, I wouldn't trust much someone who reused the name of an existing tool to do something completely unrelated in the same domain. It just feels like these people don't have a very good familiarity with the subject because they caused this confusion.

rizz0 4y ago
Depends on what you mean by "the subject". dbt doesn't claim to be a testing tool. Personally I use dbt all the time, while I didn't know about the existence of DBT-2. Different worlds apparently.
- crabbone 4y ago
  Have you ever been burned by trying to install Docker and getting the whole new desktop manager installed because Docker is a widget in that desktop manager (I believe it's in Gnome)? Actually happened to me twice (different distros at different times did include Docker, the container management tool as "docker" while more commonly naming it something else, like "docker-engine"). As for dbt. I mean... imagine you are selecting the name for your company, that's in SQL business, and you don't even bother to type into your favorite Web search engine "dbt sql"... I mean, it's definitely a business about DataBases, so, certainly a 3-letter acronym with "D" and "B" in it in that order would be truly unique, right? I'd bet is that what happened is that these people, just like you, thought "I don't know what that is, so it must be unimportant", and they never stopped to consider that they might not know something important about the field they are in.

rizz0 4y ago

Depends on what you mean by "the subject". dbt doesn't claim to be a testing tool. Personally I use dbt all the time, while I didn't know about the existence of DBT-2. Different worlds apparently.

crabbone 4y ago
Have you ever been burned by trying to install Docker and getting the whole new desktop manager installed because Docker is a widget in that desktop manager (I believe it's in Gnome)? Actually happened to me twice (different distros at different times did include Docker, the container management tool as "docker" while more commonly naming it something else, like "docker-engine"). As for dbt. I mean... imagine you are selecting the name for your company, that's in SQL business, and you don't even bother to type into your favorite Web search engine "dbt sql"... I mean, it's definitely a business about DataBases, so, certainly a 3-letter acronym with "D" and "B" in it in that order would be truly unique, right? I'd bet is that what happened is that these people, just like you, thought "I don't know what that is, so it must be unimportant", and they never stopped to consider that they might not know something important about the field they are in.