Profiles

Learn about how dbt profiles work and how to test the validity of your connection.

What are profiles?

When we run the dbt init command for the first time, it creates a profiles.yml file that’s usually located at ~/.dbt/profiles.yml .

dbt asks us for connection information such as data warehouse, project name, and dataset name, and it creates a profile in that file.

Here’s a sample profiles.yml file:

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