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Limited support of custom incremental strategies #6514

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Limited support of custom incremental strategies
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### Custom strategies

:::note limited support

Custom strategies are not currently suppored on the BigQuery and Spark adapters.

:::

Starting from dbt version 1.2 and onwards, users have an easier alternative to [creating an entirely new materialization](/guides/create-new-materializations). They define and use their own "custom" incremental strategies by:

1. Defining a macro named `get_incremental_STRATEGY_sql`. Note that `STRATEGY` is a placeholder and you should replace it with the name of your custom incremental strategy.
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