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DBT Synapse Serverless

DBT Synapse Serverless

An adapter for dbt to use Azure Synapse Serverless pools.

Year
2024
Role
Author and maintainer
Type
Open source

Overview

A dbt adapter targeting Azure Synapse Serverless SQL pools. Serverless pools behave differently from a dedicated warehouse — no persisted tables, external data read straight from the data lake — so the standard Synapse adapter's materialisations do not apply.

The adapter maps dbt's model materialisations onto what serverless actually supports (views and external tables over lake storage) and handles the connection, credentials and catalogue queries dbt expects.

Stack

dbt

Transformation framework being extended

Azure Synapse Serverless

Target SQL engine over data lake storage

Python

Adapter implementation

T-SQL

Materialisation macros and catalogue queries

Highlights

  • Materialisations adapted to serverless constraints (views / external tables)
  • Reads directly from data lake storage, no dedicated pool required
  • Open source under Germain-D/dbt-synapse-serverless

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