You're reading from Data Modeling with Snowflake A practical guide to accelerating Snowflake development using universal data modeling techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837634453

Length 324 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

SQL

Tools

Snowflake

Concepts

Data Engineering

Author (1):

Serge Gershkovich

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Core Concepts in Data Modeling and Snowflake Architecture

2. Chapter 1: Unlocking the Power of Modeling FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: An Introduction to the Four Modeling Types

4. Chapter 3: Mastering Snowflake’s Architecture

5. Chapter 4: Mastering Snowflake Objects

6. Chapter 5: Speaking Modeling through Snowflake Objects

7. Chapter 6: Seeing Snowflake’s Architecture through Modeling Notation

8. Part 2: Applied Modeling from Idea to Deployment

9. Chapter 7: Putting Conceptual Modeling into Practice

10. Chapter 8: Putting Logical Modeling into Practice

11. Chapter 9: Database Normalization

12. Chapter 10: Database Naming and Structure

13. Chapter 11: Putting Physical Modeling into Practice

14. Part 3: Solving Real-World Problems with Transformational Modeling

15. Chapter 12: Putting Transformational Modeling into Practice

16. Chapter 13: Modeling Slowly Changing Dimensions

17. Chapter 14: Modeling Facts for Rapid Analysis

18. Chapter 15: Modeling Semi-Structured Data

19. Chapter 16: Modeling Hierarchies

20. Chapter 17: Scaling Data Models through Modern Techniques

21. Index

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Appendix

File formats

File formats can be thought of as templates describing the file types for reading or writing data to a file. A file format defines properties such as the delimiter type (e.g., comma, tab, or other), date/time formats, and encoding (for example, Hex Base64, and UTF-8).

Snowflake provides several structured and semi-structured file formats, such as CSV, JSON, and Parquet, with commonly used defaults. However, users are free to create their own named file formats when loading or unloading files of a specified type. File format properties may also be specified at runtime when using the COPY INTO command.

A description of supported file types and file formats for data loading is available in the Snowflake documentation: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/data-load-prepare.html.

For a complete overview of data loading of all kinds, including streaming, see the guide on the Snowflake website: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide-data-load.html.

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