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Syncing your dbt changes

You can easily make changes in dbt and see them updated in your Lightdash project.

1. Syncing your dbt changes using refresh dbt​

Whenever you make changes to your YAML files, you can sync Lightdash and see these changes by clicking the refresh dbt button in the Explore view of the app.

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If you're using a git connection (like GitHub, Gitlab or Bitbucket), you'll need to push + merge your changes to the branch that your Lightdash project is connected to before you run refresh dbt.

2. Syncing your dbt changes using lightdash deploy​

If you're using the Lightdash CLI, you can use the lightdash deploy command to deploy your changes to your Lightdash project.

To read more about how to use lightdash deploy, check out our docs.

Note: If you've made any changes to the underlying data, you need to run dbt first​

If you've made any changes to the underlying data (for example, adding a new column in your model.sql file or changing the SQL logic of an existing dimension), then you need to run: dbt run -m yourmodel before you click refresh dbt in Lightdash.