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 Duration 35 hours

Course Outline

Core Principles of Data Warehousing

  • Defining the purpose, key components, and overall architecture of warehouses
  • Exploring data marts, enterprise warehouses, and lakehouse patterns
  • Understanding OLTP vs OLAP distinctions and workload separation strategies

Dimensional Modeling Techniques

  • Concepts of facts, dimensions, and data grain
  • Comparing star schema and snowflake schema designs
  • Managing Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD) types and implementations

ETL and ELT Workflows

  • Techniques for extracting data from OLTP sources and APIs
  • Applying transformations, data cleansing, and conformance rules
  • Establishing load patterns, orchestration logic, and dependency control

Data Quality and Metadata Governance

  • Implementing data profiling and validation protocols
  • Aligning master and reference data standards
  • Managing lineage, catalogs, and comprehensive documentation

Analytics and Performance Optimization

  • Utilizing cubing concepts, aggregates, and materialized views
  • Applying partitioning, clustering, and indexing for analytical speed
  • Managing workloads, caching mechanisms, and query performance tuning

Security and Governance Frameworks

  • Configuring access controls, roles, and row-level security policies
  • Addressing compliance requirements and audit trails
  • Establishing backup, recovery, and high-availability practices

Contemporary Architectures

  • Leveraging cloud data warehouses and elastic scaling capabilities
  • Integrating streaming ingestion for near real-time analytics
  • Strategies for cost optimization and continuous monitoring

Capstone Project: Source to Star Schema

  • Modeling a specific business process into facts and dimensions
  • Developing a complete end-to-end ETL or ELT pipeline
  • Deploying dashboards and verifying metric accuracy

Course Summary and Path Forward

Requirements

  • A solid grasp of relational database systems and SQL
  • Practical experience in data analysis or reporting
  • Basic knowledge of cloud-based or on-premises data infrastructure

Target Audience

  • Data analysts looking to transition into data warehousing roles
  • Business Intelligence developers and ETL engineers
  • Data architects and technical team leaders

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