You'll learn the essential skills needed to design, build, and maintain robust data warehouses that power business intelligence and analytics. Through hands-on practice, you'll learn to create star schema data models that enable self-service reporting, apply database normalization techniques while preserving query performance, and use advanced SQL window functions for complex analytical calculations.

Data Modeling & Warehousing Fundamentals in Data Engineering

Data Modeling & Warehousing Fundamentals in Data Engineering
This course is part of Open source Data Engineering with Spark, dbt & Airflow Professional Certificate

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What you'll learn
Design star schema data models with fact and dimension tables that enable intuitive self-service business intelligence reporting.
Apply third normal form normalization to optimize database structure while maintaining query performance through indexing strategies.
Use advanced SQL window functions to calculate rolling metrics, rankings, and time-series analytics for complex data analysis.
Implement database replication and incremental loading techniques to ensure high availability and efficient data warehouse updates.
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