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