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Data Warehousing Workshop (Badge 1)

This workshop is the first workshop in the Hands-On Badge Series. In this course, you'll start your Snowflake journey by mastering fundamental database concepts. Learn about cloud-based databases, account setup, and security basics. Get hands-on experience creating databases, loading data using various methods including SQL and COPY INTO, and working with semi-structured data formats like JSON and XML. Practice essential SQL skills as you follow along with Tsai Yang and her Uncle Yer, who demonstrate how intuitive Snowflake can be, even for complete beginners. No prerequisites required - just bring your willingness to learn and a web browser.
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Data Warehousing Workshop (Badge 1)

Course Overview

Start Here! Our Data Warehousing Workshop is designed for learners who are new to Snowflake, or new to databases in general. This workshop is highly interactive with reflection questions, hands on lab work and automated lab work checks! Fast-paced and informative, light in tone, scenario-driven and metaphor rich.

Prior Knowledge & Experience

As our flagship course, there are no prerequisites. You should know how to use a web browser but beyond that, you don't even need to know what a database is! It does NOT require prior experience with Snowflake.

Scenario-Based

We do our work alongside Tsai Yang, a data engineer who is reviewing Snowflake for her company's possible move to Snowflake. We also observe as Tsai introduces Snowflake and database concepts to her Uncle Yer, who has never used a database before but finds Snowflake clear and easy to learn.

Time to Complete

Most learner take between 8 and 12 hours to complete this workshop.

Grading

This course is not for learners who require step-by-step instructions. You will be expected to independently apply previously learned concepts to new tasks without step-by-step guidance.

To complete the workshop, you will watch videos, answer quizzes, and finish labs auto-graded by DORA, our grading robot. DORA will issue your badge within 24 hours of course completion.

Lab Environment

Don't sign up for a trial account until you are given step-by-step instructions within the course flow. Since this is the first course, we are more precise with the steps.

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