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Karthik Rajashekaran

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dbt Fusion: What dbt Core Users on Snowflake Need to Know

You know dbt Core. You know the compile-run-test cycle. You know that dbt run on a 400-model project means coffee. dbt Fusion is the part…

May 28, 2026 · 8 min read · 7 claps #dbt-labs #dbt-fusion #snowflake

dbt Fusion: What dbt Core Users on Snowflake Need to Know

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dbt State: How dbt Finally Got Smart About What Not to Build

Rebuilding everything, every time, is the most expensive habit in the modern data stack. dbt State is dbt Labs’ answer — and it changes how…

Jun 03, 2026 · 5 min read · 5 claps #dbt-labs #dbt-cloud #dbt

dbt State: How dbt Finally Got Smart About What Not to Build

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Snowflake and Anthropic Just Changed the Enterprise AI Game — Here’s Why It Matters

The partnership that’s making governed AI a production reality for the world’s largest companies.

Jun 02, 2026 · 4 min read · 4 claps #ai #snowflake #anthropics

Snowflake and Anthropic Just Changed the Enterprise AI Game — Here’s Why It Matters

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dbt-tree: Lineage in Your Terminal

One command, a readable DAG — no docs server, no browser, no warehouse connection.

Jun 10, 2026 · 4 min read · 3 claps #dbt-labs #dbt-core #dbt-cloud

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MIN_BY and MAX_BY in Snowflake: One Line Instead of a Window Function

They replace the QUALIFY ROW_NUMBER() dance with a single call. They also hand back three different kinds of NULL and an arbitrary winner…

Oct 01, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #snowflake #sql #data-engineering

MIN_BY and MAX_BY in Snowflake: One Line Instead of a Window Function

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Snowflake’s MERGE … ALL BY NAME Is Genuinely Good

It will not add columns to your target table. Here’s what it actually does — and why that’s still worth adopting.

Sep 11, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #snowflake #sql #data-engineering

Snowflake’s MERGE … ALL BY NAME Is Genuinely Good

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Setting Up the dbt Wizard CLI with Snowflake Cortex — A Simple, Step-by-Step Guide

How I got dbt’s command-line coding agent running on my own Snowflake account using a Programmatic Access Token (PAT) — no separate AI…

Jun 09, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #dbt-labs #dbt-core #snowflake

Setting Up the dbt Wizard CLI with Snowflake Cortex — A Simple, Step-by-Step Guide

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dbt Core v2.0 Is Here: One Engine, Open Source, Built on Fusion

dbt Labs just shipped the first alpha of dbt Core v2.0 — still Apache 2.0, but rebuilt on the same Rust foundation as the Fusion engine…

Jun 02, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #dbt-labs #dbt-core #dbt

dbt Core v2.0 Is Here: One Engine, Open Source, Built on Fusion

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Check Every Row With One SQL Function

How Snowflake’s BOOLAND_AGG answers "is this true for all of them?" in a single, clean pass.

Jun 15, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #snowflake #snowflake-data-cloud #data-engineering