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

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