Staging vs Intermediate vs Mart Models in dbt

Understanding the purpose of staging, intermediate and mart models in the context of data build tool (dbt)

Giorgos Myrianthous
Towards Data Science
5 min readDec 2, 2022

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In one of my recent articles, I discussed about how to properly structure dbt projects and data models. The creation of new and maintenance of existing data models can be tedious tasks when no particular rules…

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