I'm officially archiving this repo as I don't currently have a need for it and dbt-sqlserver has long surpassed this repo. I see no current value in maintaining a redundant project and instead encorage people to use that option.

dbt-mssql is a custom adapter for dbt that adds support for Microsoft SQL Server versions 2008 R2 and later. pyodbc is used as the connection driver as that is what is suggested by Microsoft. The adapter supports both windows auth, and specified user accounts.

Your user profile (located in ~/.dbt/profile) will need an appropriate entry for your package.

Required parameters are:

• driver
• host
• database
• schema
• one of the login options:
  • SQL Server authentication
    • username
    • password
  • Windows Login
    • windows_login: true

Example profile:

The example below configures a seperate dev and prod environment for the package, foo. You will likely need to alter the driver variable to match whatever is installed on your system. In this example, I'm using version 17, which is the newest on my system. If you have something else on your system, it should work as well.

foo:
  target: dev
  outputs:
    dev:
      type: mssql
      driver: 'ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server'
      host: sqlserver.mydomain.com
      database: dbt_test
      schema: foo_dev
      windows_login: True
    prod:
      type: mssql
      driver: 'ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server'
      host: sqlserver.mydomain.com
      database: dbt_test
      schema: foo
      username: dbt_user
      password: super_secret_dbt_password

Fishtown Analytic's jaffle shop package is currently unsupported by this adapter. At the time of this writing, jaffle shop uses the using() join, and group by [ordinal] notation which is not supported in T-SQL. An alternative version has been forked by the author of dbt-mssql here.

• To create a nonclustered index for a specific model, go to that model's SQL and add a config macro with a pre-hook and post-hook key/value pair.
• Whenever you create_nonclustered_index on a post-hook, we recommend you drop_all_indexes_on_table on a pre-hook.
• You can create more than one index on a model in the post-hook by submitting a bracketed list of create_nonclustered_index macros.
• See examples below.

• create_clustered_index takes one argument:
  • column - a quoted string that refers to the column you want to create a clustered index on
• drop_all_indexes_on_table needs no arguments.
• create_nonclustered_index takes two arguments:
  • columns - a list of quoted strings that refer to the column names you want to create the index on
  • includes - a list of quotes strings that refer to the column names that you want to include in the index look-ups.

{{ 
    config({
      "pre-hook": "{{ drop_all_indexes_on_table() }}",
      "post-hook": "{{ create_nonclustered_index(columns = ['some_column'], includes = ['another_column']) }}"
    }) 
}}

{{ 
    config({
      "pre-hook": "{{ drop_all_indexes_on_table() }}",
      "post-hook": [
         "{{ create_clustered_index(column = 'some_table_key'}}",
         "{{ create_nonclustered_index(columns = ['some_column']) }}",
         "{{ create_nonclustered_index(columns = ['a_colmumn', 'the_column']) }}",
         "{{ create_nonclustered_index(columns = ['this_column', 'that_column'], includes = ['my_column', 'your_column']) }}"
	 ]
    }) 
}}