dbt-star

[AxelThevenot]

Description

A dbt package to SELECT * without SELECT *!

🎯 Selective Column Inclusion:
Generate exhaustive SELECT expressions for models and sources removing your old SELECT * from your queries, improving readability when compiled.

🚫 Configurable:
Use the optional except argument to tailor the output by excluding specific columns.
Enhance query clarity with the alias argument, especially useful for multiple model instances.

🌐 Cross-Platform Compatibility: Supports all data platforms, ensuring flexibility in your data stack.

Link to your package's repository: https://github.com/AxelThevenot/dbt-star

Checklist

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First run experience

• The package includes a README which explains how to get started with the package and customise its behaviour
• The README indicates which data warehouses/platforms are expected to work with this package

Customisability

• The package uses ref or source, instead of hard-coding table references.

Packages for data transformation (delete if not relevant):

• provide a mechanism (such as variables) to customise the location of source tables.
• do not assume database/schema names in sources.

Dependencies

Dependencies on dbt Core

• The package has set a supported require-dbt-version range in dbt_project.yml. Example: A package which depends on functionality added in dbt Core 1.2 should set its require-dbt-version property to [">=1.2.0", "<2.0.0"].

Dependencies on other packages defined in packages.yml:

• Dependencies are imported from the dbt Package Hub when available, as opposed to a git installation.
• Dependencies contain the widest possible range of supported versions, to minimise issues in dependency resolution.
• In particular, dependencies are not pinned to a patch version unless there is a known incompatibility.

Interoperability

• The package does not override dbt Core behaviour in such a way as to impact other dbt resources (models, tests, etc) not provided by the package.
• The package uses the cross-database macros built into dbt Core where available, such as {{ dbt.except() }} and {{ dbt.type_string() }}.
• The package disambiguates its resource names to avoid clashes with nodes that are likely to already exist in a project. For example, packages should not provide a model simply called users.

Versioning

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• The package's version follows the guidance of Semantic Versioning 2.0.0. (Note in particular the recommendation for production-ready packages to be version 1.0.0 or above)

[joellabes]

Thanks @AxelThevenot! Do you know about dbt_utils.star?

It does a similar thing, but instead of reading from the yaml files it reads the columns from the information schema directly.

[AxelThevenot]

Yes I saw it but I highly prefer a more declarative approach 🙏
And it forces having a good documentation 😇

Thank you for merging it

And I probably will re-inspire myself of this package to add some new optional arguments