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Amazon Redshift Cookbook
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Amazon Redshift Cookbook

by Shruti Worlikar, Thiyagarajan Arumugam, Harshida Patel
July 2021
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
6h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2: Data Management

Amazon Redshift is a data warehousing service optimized for online analytical processing (OLAP) applications. You can start with just a few hundred gigabytes (GB) of data and scale to a petabyte (PB) or more. Designing your database for analytical processing lets you take full advantage of Amazon Redshift's columnar architecture.

An analytical schema forms the foundation of your data model. This chapter explores how you can set up this schema, thus enabling convenient querying using standard Structured Query Language (SQL) and easy administration of access controls.

The following recipes are discussed in this chapter:

  • Managing a database in an Amazon Redshift cluster
  • Managing a schema in a database
  • Managing tables ...
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