Errata

Analytics Engineering with SQL and dbt

Errata for Analytics Engineering with SQL and dbt

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Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted by Date Submitted
Printed Page 172
Last sentence of the second paragraph from the last above Example 4-7

Seems like a leftover fragment that was refactored into the last paragraph. Removing the sentence “even using dbt Cloud … with BigQuery” is recommended.

Anonymous  Nov 20, 2024 
PDF Page 59
example 2-22, 2-23

Docstring type comments and their formatting as the one in Example 2-22 are not carried over to the documentation by dbt when running `docs generate`. Only the comments placed in the yml files are.

Anonymous  Jul 14, 2024 
Mobi Page 64
CREATE TABLE publishes

After the "REFERENCES...", it should be the "authors" table, with an "s", rather than "author"

Francisco Galan  May 23, 2024 
Mobi Page 63
CREATE TABLE books

Missing a comma after summary VARCHAR(255)

Francisco Galan  May 23, 2024