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Materializations
You already have the SQL for your dbt model. When dbt runs it, there’s another choice to make: should people query a view, or should dbt store the result in a table? In dbt, that choice is called the materialization.
Starting with views and tables
These two choices make the core idea easy to see. dbt also has materializations such as incremental and ephemeral; we’ll introduce them when they become useful.