Discover how Snowflake’s unique objects and features can be used to leverage
universal modeling techniques through real-world examples and SQL recipes
Key Features
Learn core modeling techniques tied to practical examples using native
Snowflake architecture
Adopt a universal modeling language to communicate business value to
functional teams
Go beyond physical modeling with SQL recipes to transform and shape your
Snowflake data
Book Description
The Snowflake Data Cloud is one of the fastest-growing platforms for data
warehousing and application workloads. Snowflake's scalable, cloud-native
architecture and expansive set of features and objects enables you to deliver
data solutions quicker than ever before.
Yet, we must ensure that these solutions are developed using recommended
design patterns and accompanied by documentation that’s easily accessible to
everyone in the organization.
This book will help you get familiar with simple and practical data modeling
frameworks that accelerate agile design and evolve with the project from
concept to code. These universal principles have helped guide database design
for decades, and this book pairs them with unique Snowflake-native objects and
examples like never before – giving you a two-for-one crash course in theory
as well as direct application.
By the end of this Snowflake book, you’ll have learned how to leverage
Snowflake’s innovative features, such as time travel, zero- ing, and change-
data-capture, to create cost-effective, efficient designs through time-tested
modeling principles that are easily digestible when coupled with real-world
examples.
What you will learn
Discover the time-saving benefits and applications of data modeling
Learn about Snowflake’s cloud-native architecture and its features
Understand and apply modeling techniques using Snowflake objects
Universal modeling concepts and language through Snowflake objects
Get comfortable reading and transforming semistructured data
Learn directly with pre-built recipes and examples
Learn to apply modeling frameworks from Star to Data Vault
Who this book is for
This book is for developers working with SQL who are looking to build a strong
foundation in modeling best practices and gain an understanding of where they
can be effectively applied to save time and effort. Whether you’re an ace in
SQL logic or starting out in database design, this book will equip you with
the practical foundations of data modeling to guide you on your data journey
with Snowflake. Developers who’ve recently discovered Snowflake will be able
to uncover its core features and learn to incorporate them into universal
modeling frameworks.
Table of Contents
Unlocking the Power of Modeling
An Introduction to the Four Modeling Types
Mastering Snowflake's Architecture
Mastering Snowflake Objects
Speaking Modeling through Snowflake Objects
Seeing Snowflake's Architecture through Modeling Notation
Putting Conceptual Modeling into Practice
Putting Logical Modeling into Practice
Database Normalization
Database Naming and Structure
Putting Physical Modeling into Practice
Putting Transformational Modeling into Practice
Modeling Slowly Changing Dimensions
Modeling Facts for Rapid Analysis
Modeling Semi-Structured Data
Modeling Hierarchies
Scaling Data Models through Modern Techniques
Appendix
Також купити книгу Data Modeling with Snowflake: A practical guide to
accelerating Snowflake development using universal data modeling techniques,
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