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How to get started with dbt

Christophe Blefari

You can also add metadata on models (in YAML). You have to define sources in YAML files. ℹ️ I want to mention that the dbt documentation is one of the best tools documentation out there. The documentation, as I said earlier, is top of the notch. macros — a way to create re-usable functions.

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The Best Data Dictionary Tools in 2025

Monte Carlo

Not every solution out there is built the same, and if youve ever tried to wrangle documentation from scratch, you know how painful a clunky tool can be. Next, look for automatic metadata scanning. Its like a time machine for your documentation. Its built for large-scale metadata management and deep lineage tracking.

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Scale Unstructured Text Analytics with Batch LLM Inference

Snowflake

Unstructured text is everywhere in business: customer reviews, support tickets, call transcripts, documents. Meanwhile, operations teams use entity extraction on documents to automate workflows and enable metadata-driven analytical filtering.

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Simplifying Multimodal Data Analysis with Snowflake Cortex AI

Snowflake

Other examples include retailers who integrate product photo metadata with transaction histories to gain deeper insights of how visuals influence purchase decisions. Healthcare organizations can improve patient outcomes by correlating imaging metadata with treatment protocols and demographics. for comprehensive visual analysis.

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AI and Data Predictions 2025: Strategies to Realize the Promise of AI

Snowflake

Overall, data must be easily accessible to AI systems, with clear metadata management and a focus on relevance and timeliness. Expect autonomous agents, document digestion and AI as its own killer app.

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Simplifying Data Architecture and Security to Accelerate Value

Snowflake

Unlock value of unstructured documents with AI-enabled automated data extraction and integration Businesses of all kinds are flooded with documents every day — invoices, receipts, notices, forms and more — and yet getting and using the information therein remains manual, time-consuming and error-prone.

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Snowflake Cortex Search: State-of-the-Art Hybrid Search for RAG Applications

Snowflake

Snowflake Cortex Search, a fully managed search service for documents and other unstructured data, is now in public preview. It supports “fuzzy” search — the service takes in natural language queries and returns the most relevant text results, along with associated metadata.