Dbt Build Process

Dbt Build Process & Dbt_Wrapper

The dbt-fabricksparknb package includes a console application that will allow you to build your dbt project and generate a series of notebooks that can be run in a Fabric workspace. This application is called dbt_wrapper and is a python script that is run from the command line. You can invoke the application and view information about it by running the following command in a terminal.

Important

Before running the dbt_wrapper make sure you're logged into your tenant in the PowerShell terminal using both az login. See the examples below and replace the tenant id with your own.

az login --tenant 73738727-cfc1-4875-90c2-2a7a1149ed3d --allow-no-subscriptions

Note

Make sure that you have activated your python virtual environment before running this code.

dbt_wrapper --help

To build your dbt project and publish your notebook to your Fabric workspace you can run the command below:

Note

Be sure to replace my_project with the name of your dbt project folder

dbt_wrapper run-all my_project

The command above will carry out all of the necessary "stages" required to fully build your dbt project and generate the notebooks that can be run in a Fabric workspace. When run successfully your should see output similar to the image below.

Tip

• You can view the execution results of the master notebook directly in the console. To enable this, manually add the sql_endpoint of your default lakehouse in your profile.yml. (You can find the sql_endpoint value in your SQL connection string from the Fabric lakehouse.)
• Additionally, ensure that version 18 of the SQL Server driver is installed on your machine. Refer - ODBC Driver for SQL Server

Here is the sample scheenshot of the execution results of the master notebook directly in the console

Toggling Build Stages Off and On

There are times when you may not wish to run ALL of the build steps. In such circumstances you can toggle off specific stages by using the options built in to the dbt_wrapper application. To view all of the options available to you run the command below:

dbt_wrapper run-all --help

For example, should you wish to run all stages except for the upload of the generated notebooks to your Fabric workspace you can run the command below:

dbt_wrapper run-all my_project --no-upload-notebooks-via-api  

Alternatively, you might want to make use of some additional "helper" commands that we have included in the application. For example, Notebooks are defaulted to the timeout of 1800 seconds. You can increase that by passing a timeout configuration when building the project.

Note

you can change the int value to anything you want as long as it's not larger than 7 days in seconds

dbt_wrapper run-all my_project --notebook-timeout=2100

The default lakehouse is set in the metadata of each notebook that gets created. You can override this and include a cell with the magic command %%configure to set the default lakehouse for the notebooks using this wrapper command when building:

dbt_wrapper run-all my_project --lakehouse-config="CODE"

Review all of the commands available to you by running using the help option as shown below:

dbt_wrapper --help

Info

You are now ready to move to the next step in which you gain an understanding of the various kinds of notebooks generated by the adapter. Follow the Understanding the Generated Notebooks guide.