Pat Nadolny

> Under `userdev`, I believe the `raw` DBs are all expected to be recreated on a per-user basis. Instead of a BYO-raw-data approach, the `dbt_dev` profile defaults all raw data...

@aaronsteers whenever you have time and pick this back up, I added a new contributing guide for the meltano project along with a custom extension for cloning snowflake objects into...

My thoughts on this: - 1 and 3 are at odds with each other. My opinion would be to do 3. - For 2 - I'll have to check but...

Related to https://github.com/meltano/squared/issues/366

Similar to https://github.com/meltano/squared/issues/114 which is particularly related to data observability answering the "did we get a huge drop in row counts vs last week?" question.

After exploring this more my understanding of defer is: - given a manifest of previous production run the dbt command will only build changed models into the "dev" schema and...

>I might be missing something in the above. How does the clone method know which tables it can skip due to not being changed? @aaronsteers I think you're looking for...

@DouweM @tayloramurphy can you refresh me on the use cases we were targeting for this data? I didnt see any issues in here or in internal-data around using this data....

@aaronsteers I commented in the PR but can you share more of the exact issues you were running into? Its totally possible that things arent working as expected because I've...

@aaronsteers yeah I can write up a better contributing section. It might end up being helpful to use tags for some of the larger tables so they can easily be...