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About dbt seed command

The dbt seed command will load csv files located in the seed-paths directory of your dbt project into your data warehouseA data warehouse is a data management system used for data storage and computing that allows for analytics activities such as transforming and sharing data..

Selecting seeds to run

Specific seeds can be run using the --select flag to dbt seed. Example:

$ dbt seed --select "country_codes"
Found 2 models, 3 tests, 0 archives, 0 analyses, 53 macros, 0 operations, 2 seed files

14:46:15 | Concurrency: 1 threads (target='dev')
14:46:15 |
14:46:15 | 1 of 1 START seed file analytics.country_codes........................... [RUN]
14:46:15 | 1 of 1 OK loaded seed file analytics.country_codes....................... [INSERT 3 in 0.01s]
14:46:16 |
14:46:16 | Finished running 1 seed in 0.14s.

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