Course Outline
Foundations of Data Warehousing
- Warehouse purpose, components, and architecture
- Data marts, enterprise warehouses, and lakehouse patterns
- OLTP vs OLAP fundamentals and workload separation
Dimensional Modeling
- Facts, dimensions, and grain
- Star schema vs snowflake schema
- Slowly Changing Dimensions types and handling
ETL and ELT Processes
- Extraction strategies from OLTP and APIs
- Transformations, data cleansing, and conformance
- Load patterns, orchestration, and dependency management
Data Quality and Metadata Management
- Data profiling and validation rules
- Master and reference data alignment
- Lineage, catalogs, and documentation
Analytics and Performance
- Cubing concepts, aggregates, and materialized views
- Partitioning, clustering, and indexing for analytics
- Workload management, caching, and query tuning
Security and Governance
- Access control, roles, and row-level security
- Compliance considerations and auditing
- Backup, recovery, and reliability practices
Modern Architectures
- Cloud data warehouses and elasticity
- Streaming ingestion and near real-time analytics
- Cost optimization and monitoring
Capstone: From Source to Star Schema
- Modeling a business process into facts and dimensions
- Building an end-to-end ETL or ELT workflow
- Publishing dashboards and validating metrics
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- An understanding of relational databases and SQL
- Experience with data analysis or reporting
- Basic familiarity with cloud or on-premises data platforms
Audience
- Data analysts transitioning to data warehousing
- BI developers and ETL engineers
- Data architects and team leads
Testimonials (4)
Trainer had good grasp of concepts
Josheel - Verizon Connect
Course - Amazon Redshift
What I liked most was the trainer's mastery of the subject, his patience and clarity when explaining the concepts, and especially his constant willingness to answer all the questions that arose. It was a really enriching and very enjoyable learning experience.
Patricio Condado - SOKODB
Machine Translated
analytical functions
khusboo dassani - Tech Northwest Skillnet
Course - SQL Advanced
how the trainor shows his knowledge in the subject he's teachign