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Data Engineering with Python
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Data Engineering with Python

by Paul Crickard
October 2020
Beginner to intermediate
356 pages
6h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 4: Working with Databases

In the previous chapter, you learned how to read and write text files. Reading log files or other text files from a data lake and moving them into a database or data warehouse is a common task for data engineers. In this chapter, you will use the skills you gained working with text files and learn how to move that data into a database. This chapter will also teach you how to extract data from relational and NoSQL databases. By the end of this chapter, you will have the skills needed to work with databases using Python, NiFi, and Airflow. It is more than likely that most of your data pipelines will end with a database and very likely that they will start with one as well. With these skills, you will be able to ...

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