dbt Staging Layer #

Staging layers are cleaned up versions of the raw tables.

Each table should map 1:1 to each raw table.

Staging layers might handle things like:

• Renaming fields

• Casting fields

• Conditional logic

But why? #

This makes the system modular.

This introduces a gatekeeper to controlling the flow of data.

Everything downstream is going to be cleaner and easier to manage.