dbt Wizard Explore mode in preview for natural-language data questions

PreviewSeptember 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Explore mode in the dbt Wizard home tab and Studio IDE lets users ask questions of governed production data in plain language, with the SQL or metric definition behind each answer. Read-only users can be invited without a developer license.

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dbt State-powered state:* selectors for self-managed deployments in beta

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dbt State lag tolerance recommendations

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