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[Feature] Support ordering on Incremental Materializations #699

@danielefrigo

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Is this your first time submitting a feature request?

  • I have read the expectations for open source contributors
  • I have searched the existing issues, and I could not find an existing issue for this feature
  • I am requesting a straightforward extension of existing dbt-snowflake functionality, rather than a Big Idea better suited to a discussion

Describe the feature

I know that dbt adds an order by at the end of models materialized as table having a clustering key, in order to reduce (potentially to zero) the auto-clustering costs.
Couldn't the same logic be applied also to append and delete+insert materializations?
I often apply them to models with time-aggregated data (e.g. monthly summaries), and they could surely benefit for such a feature (and I don't see any drawback: in the worst case, the auto-clustering would re-cluster the new data with the old one as it would have done anyway).
I did some testing on my own project, and found that overriding get_insert_into_sql macro should do the trick.

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