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Data Warehouse Migration Best Practices

Monte Carlo

But in reality, a data warehouse migration to cloud solutions like Snowflake and Redshift requires a tremendous amount of preparation to be successful—from schema changes and data validation to a carefully executed QA process. What’s more, issues in the source data could even be amplified by a new, sophisticated system.

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Implementing Data Contracts in the Data Warehouse

Monte Carlo

In those cases, we try to test on a blank or sample of data. Schema compatibility We use the Confluent (Kafka) Schema Registry to store contracts for the data warehouse. Data warehouse setup We define our data warehouse in code using an open-source Python tool called dbt (data build tool).

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100+ Big Data Interview Questions and Answers 2023

ProjectPro

Step 4: Data Transformation and Enrichment Data transformation involves changing the format or value inputs to achieve a specific result or to make the data more understandable to a larger audience. Enriching data entails connecting it to other related data to produce deeper insights. Is SQL Good for Big Data?

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Top 100 Hadoop Interview Questions and Answers 2023

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Hadoop vs RDBMS Criteria Hadoop RDBMS Datatypes Processes semi-structured and unstructured data. Processes structured data. Schema Schema on Read Schema on Write Best Fit for Applications Data discovery and Massive Storage/Processing of Unstructured data. are all examples of unstructured data.

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