dbtx

Cross-platform dbt runner. Python not required.

Why use this:

• Never think about managing dbt version conflicts again.
• Determines your dbt dialect and version automatically based on your dbt_project.yml and profiles.yml
• New users don't have to install python (which can be difficult) to get started with dbt.
• Much faster installs thanks to uv and uvx.
• After first run -- when dbt package is downloaded -- speed difference vs. vanilla dbt-core is negligible (<0.2 seconds per command).

Installation

Install uv with our standalone installers, or from PyPI:

macOS and Linux

$ curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh && source ~/.cargo/bin/uv && uv tool install dbtx 

Windows

In a PowerShell administrator prompt:

$ powershell -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex ; uv tool install dbtx"

$ $env:PATH = (Join-Path $HOME '.local\bin') + ";$env:PATH"

Within python

$ pip install dbtx

Usage

1. Make sure you have require-dbt-version set in your dbt_project.yml file. Otherwise, defaults to the latest version.
2. You may also specify a version using the DBT_VERSION env variable. This will override any settings you've made in the dbt_project.yml.
3. Just replace dbtx where you would use dbt. That's it!