# Tags models execution order
**URL:** https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/tags-models-execution-order/8439
**Category:** Help
**Tags:** dbt-cloud, orchestration-and-deployment, bigquery, node-selection, best-practice
**Created:** [May 25, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/tags-models-execution-order/8439 "2023-05-25T16:45:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@jorge.sanchez](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/jorge.sanchez)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/tags-models-execution-order/8439/1 "2023-05-25T16:45:17Z")
## The problem I’m having
I have a set of models under a tag, let’s call it `main`. Now, some of these models I would like to run them after all the models in the `main` tag had run, so the idea is to remove them from the `main` tag and assign them the `post-main` tag.
Is there a way supported by dbt-core to force these two tags to be run one after the other (main → post-main)? And in dbt-cloud?
## The context of why I’m trying to do this
I am using Dagster to trigger the model execution in BigQuery. The above can be achieved using Dagster but I am interested to know if this can be directly achieved with dbt-core, as I would like to reduce the interdependency between these two.
As far as I know, the `--select tag:main tag:post-main` doesn’t imply that the desired order will be followed.
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@TomC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/TomC)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2023, 11:34am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/tags-models-execution-order/8439/2 "2023-05-26T11:34:32Z")
Hi Jorge,
Unfortunately this is not possible using dbt directly. In order to run one set of models after another set of models, you would need to use two `dbt run` commands with different selectors.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2023, 11:35am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/tags-models-execution-order/8439/3 "2023-06-02T11:35:08Z")
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