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Amazon Redshift Cookbook

You're reading from   Amazon Redshift Cookbook Recipes for building modern data warehousing solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569683
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shruti Worlikar Shruti Worlikar
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Harshida Patel Harshida Patel
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Thiyagarajan Arumugam Thiyagarajan Arumugam
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Amazon Redshift 2. Chapter 2: Data Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Loading and Unloading Data 4. Chapter 4: Data Pipelines 5. Chapter 5: Scalable Data Orchestration for Automation 6. Chapter 6: Data Authorization and Security 7. Chapter 7: Performance Optimization 8. Chapter 8: Cost Optimization 9. Chapter 9: Lake House Architecture 10. Chapter 10: Extending Redshift's Capabilities 11. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Analyzing and improving queries

Amazon Redshift defaults the table sort key and distribution key to AUTO. Amazon Redshift can learn from the workloads and automatically set the right sort and distribution style, the two big levers that dictate the table's design and optimization. Amazon Redshift also provides insights into the query plan, which helps optimize the queries when authoring them. This plan contains detailed steps about how to fetch the data.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you will need the following:

  • An IAM user with access to Amazon Redshift.
  • An Amazon Redshift cluster deployed in AWS region eu-west-1.
  • Amazon Redshift cluster master user credentials.
  • Access to any SQL interface, such as a SQL client or the Amazon Redshift Query Editor.
  • An IAM role attached to an Amazon Redshift cluster that can access Amazon S3. We will reference it in this recipe as [Your-Redshift_Role].
  • An AWS account number. We will reference it in this...
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