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dbt Best Practices Guide
dbt Labs' official best practices guide — project structure, staging/marts layering, naming conventions, testing conventions (unique, not_null, relationships, accepted_values), model contracts, and incremental model patterns. A widely-adopted convention set; agreeing on it early avoids enormous friction later. The testing conventions section directly backs our dbt test writer skill; the materialization guide supports our warehouse testing patterns.
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| What | dbt Labs' official best practices guide — project structure, staging/marts layering, naming conventions, testing conventions (unique, not_null, relationships, accepted_values), model contracts, and incremental model patterns. A widely-adopted convention set; agreeing on it early avoids enormous friction later. The testing conventions section directly backs our dbt test writer skill; the materialization guide supports our warehouse testing patterns. |
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| Where | dbt |
| Why | A widely-adopted convention set — agreeing on it early avoids a lot of friction later. |
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| Verification | community · Sep 26, 2026 |
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| Trust multiplier | ×1.25 |
| Composite | 27.7 · adequate |
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dbt Best Practices Guide