How to Use dbt Seeds

What they are and when to use them

Madison Schott
Towards Data Science
4 min readApr 25, 2023

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I’ll be honest, I haven’t used dbt seeds in a long time. I actually just rediscovered them a few days ago when trying to validate a change I made to one of our data models.

My manager sent me a CSV file with true duplicate values found in one of our data models. I was working on removing these duplicates in one of our sources’ staging models…

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