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20 Apr 2017

Meet me in St. Louie, Louie.

Next up on the Data Warrior speaking schedule is the St. Louis SilverLinings event on May 2nd. It will be held at the St. Charles Convention Center, St. Louis, MS.

SilverLinings

This promises to be a very exciting event boasting “edgy” and forward looking technical topics. It’s going to be a very busy day for me with three talks in total on some of my favorite topics.

Topic 1: Demystifying Data Warehousing as a Service: Top 10 Cool Features in Snowflake

Topic 2: Agile Methods and Data Warehousing: How to Deliver Faster

Topic 3: Agile Data Engineering: Introduction to Data Vault Data Modeling

So if you are in the St. Louis area, or fancy a trip to the Gateway to the West,  please join me there on May 2nd.

Special Discount for Data Warrior fans!

The organizers were kind enough to offer my followers a 50% discount. Wow!

Just use this code when you sign up: KGraz280790

So what are you waiting for – sign up register here.

See you soon!

Kent

The Data Warrior

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10 Mar 2016

Data Vault Modeling and Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse

Since I have joined Snowflake, I have been asked multiple times what data warehouse modeling approach does Snowflake support best. Well, the cool thing is that we support multiple data modeling approaches equally.

Turns out we have a few customers who have existing data warehouses built using a particular approach known as the Data Vault modeling approach (which my readers no well by now) and they have decided to move into Snowflake (yeah!).

So the conversation often goes like this:

Customer: “Can you do Data Vault on Snowflake?”

Me: “Yes you can! Why do you ask?”

Customer: “Well, your name is “snowflake” so we thought that might mean you only support snowflake-type schemas.”

Me: “Well, yes I can see your confusion in that case, but the name has nothing to do with data warehouse design really. In fact, we support any type of relational design, including Data Vault.”

See the rest of the post here:

Data Vault Modeling and Snowflake

Keep on Modeling!

Kent

The Data Warrior

P.S. Next week I will be in Grapevine, Texas at the Gartner BI & Analytics Summit. Snowflake has a booth there. Come by and say “howdy!”

Posted in Data Modeling, Data Vault, Data Warehouse, SnowflakeDB and tagged , , , , , , , ,
01 Apr 2015
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Better Data Modeling: An Easter Present

In celebration of Easter this year, I have a present for everyone.

A book sale!

I am putting my first Kindle ebook, A Check List for Doing Data Model Design Reviews, on Sale starting on Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015,  for five days!

The sooner you act, the better deal you will get:

Easter Sunday April 5, 2015 at 8:00 AM (PST) the price will be just 99 cents!

The next day April 6, 2015 at 11:00 AM (PST) the price will go up to $1.99

On  April 7, 2015 at 2:00 PM (PST) the price will go up to $2.99

On  April 8, 2015 at 5:00 PM (PST) the price will go up to $3.99

On  April 9, 2015 at 8:00 PM (PST) the price will go up to $4.99

On  April 10, 2015 at 11:00 PM (PST) the price will go up back to the regular price of $5.99

So if you don’t have a copy yet, buy yourself one for Easter.

If you have a copy, buy a copy for a friend as an Easter present.

Either way go here to buy one!

Happy Easter!

Kent

The Data Warrior (and Easter Bunny)

P.S. This promotion is also available on Amazon.co.uk (where it start at 8:00 AM GMT).

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16 Mar 2015

Better Data Modeling: The Book

Trying to be as productive as possible during my infrequent down time, I just published another Kindle book with some of my best tips for Oracle Data Modeler. it is called Better Data Modeling: Tips for Enhancing Your Use of Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler.

If you are one of the 3.5 million users (or so) who have downloaded this tool, and you want to know my little secrets for getting the most out of SQL Developer Data Modeler (#SQLDevModeler), this book if for you.

If you were an Oracle Designer user and are looking for a replacement data modeling tool, or you are using one of the other mainstream, expensive modeling tools and want a more cost effective alternative, then you owe it to yourself to look at Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler (SDDM). Oracle Data Modeler has been around for over five years now and is up to version 4.1. It really is an industrial strength data modeling tool that can be used for any data modeling task you need to tackle.

SQL Developer Data Modeler (SDDM) is a fully functional tool provided for FREE by Oracle. It has many features built in that can be leveraged to capture the design of an existing (probably undocumented) database or you can use it to design a new database, even a data warehouse from scratch. There are a load of great features. This book will show you my favorite features along with detailed step by step instructions (with screen shots) on how to use them.

Tips include:

  • How to easily color code your diagrams
  • How to make hundreds of views really fast
  • How to find missing foreign keys
  • How to find missing unique keys
  • How to connect to a SQL Server database (if you must…)

As a bonus, there are two appendices with my run down on common data modeling mistakes and my famous rant on why you need foreign keys in your data warehouse.

So if you don’t use Oracle Data Modeler yet, read my book to see why you should.

If you do use it, I hope this little book will make you even more productive than you already are!

Model on!

Kent

The Data Warrior

P.S. After you read the book, please leave a review on Amazon to help other folks decide if the book is for them.

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