Cloud Data Warehousing for Dummies, Snowflake Special Edition

by Joe Kraynak

Welcome to Cloud Data Warehousing for Dummies, where you discover how your organization can tap the power of massive amounts of data conveniently and affordably to enhance efficiency and transform raw data into valuable intel...

Genres: Nonfiction

46 pages, ebook

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[J. Boo · Rating 1 out of 5]

Underline the "For Dummies" here. It's a rather simple book on general data warehousing, featuring a mind-numbing amount of concept repetition, and geared for someone who knows a reasonable number of buzzwords but nothing more. I did find the structure interesting: the set-up is such that obviously the only choice for one's data warehouse needs happens to be Snowflake's distinctive solution, without the book ever actually coming out and saying that directly. (Given the cover and the fact that the book is downloadable directly from Snowflake's website, that's not a surprise.)

[Siobhán · Rating 1 out of 5]

Look, we all know surely that this is an extremely low level, dumbed down, trying to be sly in pitching Snowflake book — a work by William H. Inmon, this is not. However if there's a business person in your enterprise who needs the most basic pamphlet on data warehousing to get the ball rolling, this would maybe suffice for that.

The highlight was the offhand comment that 1 PB of data is equivalent to roughly 500B standard, printed pages of text.

[Peter Rybarczyk · Rating 2 out of 5]

That could be a good book, but it is not. It's just sad that so much potential was wasted on a pamphlet about how Cloud (and snowflake) is better than any other technology. More a marketing material than a valuable thing for an engineer.

But there are a few good parts. It is an excellent overview for cloud (snowflake) warehouse provider features, nothing more. Not patterns, no strategies, no accurate comparisons. But if you need some quick recap of what is there, that could be this book. Or any other blog post about this subject.

[Charluff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple and precise using a great structure.

Perfect to get you started in the subject, refresh some concepts and make sure you don’t forget to ask any critical questions when assessing data warehouse technology.

Obviously biased towards the cloud, but who isn’t?

[Carl · Rating 2 out of 5]

For dummies indeed, very basic information. Reads like Snowflake marketing material. In every chapter they call out something that their arch nemesis Redshift doesn’t have. Read it in 2 hours.