Hello DBT, can you kindly advise if there is a way to define “column type” (eg: varchar, date) in dbt?

Because dbt uses “Create Table As Select” statements (CTAS) to create tables in relevant database platforms, instead of doing separate “CREATE TABLE” and then “INSERT” statements, it doesn’t natively have a way to specify datatypes. However, what we do in our dbt models is to force a CAST on every …

Can you define column data types in dbt?

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meurant.naude December 17, 2020, 8:17pm 6

We’ve also had a need to cast data types. We unpacked a JSON string.
This is what we did:

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Can you define column data types in dbt?

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