Prerequisites

We support all modern mac implementations. For Windows users, make sure you have Windows Subsystem for Linux installed and configured in VSCode. For Codespaces users, please open the devcontainer locally to use our extension.

Press Control + Shift + P within VS Code. Type Code: Check for Updates and then install the latest version of VSCode when prompted.

On Mac, open a terminal and run xcode-select --install. Note, this may take 20 minutes or more.

On Windows, download the build tools here. Open the downloaded exe and follow the prompts to install Visual C++ build tools.

On Linux, sudo apt-get install build-essential on Debian-based distros and yum install gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel make on Fedora-based distros.

This depends on how you are managing your Python environment (venv, poetry, etc.). Once you have created a Python environment with Python interpreter version 3.8 or above, press Control + Shift + P within VS Code, type Python: Select Interpreter and then select the interpreter you have modified/created. You may need to press refresh button in the pane to load the latest environments.

Once you have selected the correct interpreter, press Control + Shift + P within VS Code, type Python: Create Terminal . In the terminal that opens run pip install dbt-{adapter} where adapter is the database provider you are using. Here’s a list of verified and community adapters for dbt-core.

How to remedy this highly depends on your specific setup, but here are some common fixes:

• Make sure your packages.yml file is up to date and corresponds to your dbt version
• Make sure you’ve run dbt deps
• Address any repo errors reported when you run dbt parse or dbt compile
• Make sure that your dbt profile has sufficient database permissions to access the metadata of your development schema