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-copy cloning, 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.
publication date
2023-05-31
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
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
approach
Though data modeling is a universal, time-tested technique - Snowflake is an innovative platform engineered for the cloud and offering many unique features. This book will bridge the two domains by walking the user through the complete modeling lifecycle while relying on the unique capabilities of Snowflake objects and using real-world SQL recipes
audience
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.
short description
Modeling guides are often steeped in theory and formal language. The innovative approach taken in Data Modeling with Snowflake combines practical modeling concepts with Snowflake best practices and unique features, allowing you to create efficient designs that leverage the power of the Data Cloud.
subtitle
A practical guide to accelerating Snowflake development using universal data modeling techniques
keywords
Data Modeling, Snowflake modeling, universal data modeling, star schema, Data vault, Snowflake objects, Snowflake data modeling
Product ISBN
9781837634453
