Google BigQuery and dbt Cloud Quickstart: Full Setup Guide

In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up dbt Cloud with Google BigQuery from scratch. We walk through creating a Google Cloud project and service account, configuring the dbt Cloud connection, defining sources, building staging models using the source macro, creating a customer dimension with the ref function, and scheduling a production deployment job. This is the core workflow used in real analytics engineering projects and serves as a practical foundation for more advanced topics like Data Vault modeling and automated pipeline orchestration. #dbtCloud #GoogleBigQuery #AnalyticsEngineering #DataEngineering #ModernDataStack #dbtTutorial #BigQuery #DataVault