The Three Levels of SQL Comprehension: What they are and why you need to know about them | dbt Developer Blog

Parsers, compilers, executors, oh my! What it means when we talk about 'understanding SQL'.

Ever since dbt Labs acquired SDF Labs last week , I've been head-down diving into their technology and making sense of it all. The main thing I knew going in was "SDF understands SQL". It's a nice pithy quote, but the specifics are fascinating. For the next era of Analytics Engineering to be as transformative as the last, dbt needs to move beyond being a string preprocessor and into fully comprehending SQL. For the first time, SDF provides the technology necessary to make this possible. Today we're going to dig into what SQL comprehension actually means, since it's so critical to what comes ne

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