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Published inMay 2023
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Serge Gershkovich
Serge Gershkovich
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Serge Gershkovich

Serge Gershkovich is a seasoned data architect with decades of experience designing and maintaining enterprise-scale data warehouse platforms and reporting solutions. He is a leading subject matter expert, speaker, content creator, and Snowflake Data Superhero. Serge earned a bachelor of science degree in information systems from the State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook. Throughout his career, Serge has worked in model-driven development from SAP BW/HANA to dashboard design to cost-effective cloud analytics with Snowflake. He currently serves as product success lead at SqlDBM, an online database modeling tool.
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Technical requirements

This book focuses on data modeling specifically for the Snowflake Data Cloud. While modeling includes many system-agnostic terms and conventions, this book will leverage unique features of Snowflake architecture, data types, and functions when building physical models and Structured Query Language (SQL) transformations.

To follow along with the exercises in the following chapters, you will need a Snowflake account with access to a sandbox area for creating schemas, objects, and loading data.

You can sign up for a 30-day free trial of Snowflake (https://signup.snowflake.com/) if you do not already have access.

This book will frequently use visual modeling diagrams as part of the modeling process. While a diagram can be drawn by hand and constructed in PowerPoint or Lucidchart, a tool that supports common database modeling features is recommended. The exercises in this book will take the reader from conceptual database-agnostic diagrams to deployable and runnable Snowflake code. For this reason, a tool that supports various modeling types and can forward engineer Snowflake syntax is recommended.

The diagrams in this book were generated using the SqlDBM online database modeling tool (https://sqldbm.com/Home/), which supports the previously mentioned features and offers a 2-week free trial.

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Author (1)

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Serge Gershkovich

Serge Gershkovich is a seasoned data architect with decades of experience designing and maintaining enterprise-scale data warehouse platforms and reporting solutions. He is a leading subject matter expert, speaker, content creator, and Snowflake Data Superhero. Serge earned a bachelor of science degree in information systems from the State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook. Throughout his career, Serge has worked in model-driven development from SAP BW/HANA to dashboard design to cost-effective cloud analytics with Snowflake. He currently serves as product success lead at SqlDBM, an online database modeling tool.
Read more about Serge Gershkovich