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Serverless Analytics with Amazon Athena

You're reading from   Serverless Analytics with Amazon Athena Query structured, unstructured, or semi-structured data in seconds without setting up any infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562349
Length 438 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: Fundamentals Of Amazon Athena
2. Chapter 1: Your First Query FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Amazon Athena 4. Chapter 3: Key Features, Query Types, and Functions 5. Section 2: Building and Connecting to Your Data Lake
6. Chapter 4: Metastores, Data Sources, and Data Lakes 7. Chapter 5: Securing Your Data 8. Chapter 6: AWS Glue and AWS Lake Formation 9. Section 3: Using Amazon Athena
10. Chapter 7: Ad Hoc Analytics 11. Chapter 8: Querying Unstructured and Semi-Structured Data 12. Chapter 9: Serverless ETL Pipelines 13. Chapter 10: Building Applications with Amazon Athena 14. Chapter 11: Operational Excellence – Monitoring, Optimization, and Troubleshooting 15. Section 4: Advanced Topics
16. Chapter 12: Athena Query Federation 17. Chapter 13: Athena UDFs and ML 18. Chapter 14: Lake Formation – Advanced Topics 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

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