#columnlineage
Column-level lineage comparison.

How does column lineage stack up in the following implementations?

- dbt Power User (VSCode)
- dbt Cloud
- SQLMesh (dbt compatibility)

There are actually a lot of interesting differences:

medium.com/inthepipelin...

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Why Column-Level Lineage Matters for dbt: Comparing the options
A look at how column-level lineage works in dbt — in open-source, dbt Cloud, and through SQLMesh. There are more differences than you think
medium.com
March 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Type 1: Pass-through

Selected directly from upstream without changes

SELECT user_id FROM {{ ref("users") }}

✅ user_id flows through unchanged

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May 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM