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Connect your profiles and project YAML files

Connect your profiles and project YAML files - Data Build Tool (dbt) Tutorial

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Connect your profiles and project YAML files

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- [Instructor] We now have our DBT project yml file and our profiles yml file. But how do they interact with each other? Here's a really useful quote directly from the DBT documentation. When you run DBT from the command line, it reads your DBT project yml file to find the profile name and then looks for a profile with the same name in your profile's yml file. This profile contains all the information DBT needs to connect to your data platform. In our case it's duckdb. And so this is integral how DBT works and you can quickly check it with the command line of DBT debug. So I'm going to make sure that we first in the NYC parking violations directory. And to do that I do LS. List my directories and I can quickly see I'm not in the right directory. And this trips me up all the time in DBT, and so I'm glad we saw this so we can do this right now. So remember to move to a directory, do cd, and now we're going to do NYC…

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