Data Modeling with Snowflake

Appendix

Wouldn’t it be fitting if a book on modeling was itself modeled after something? Well, it has been! This book follows a spiral model, starting from a high-level overview of modeling and rising in winding loops, revisiting its core elements in ever-greater depth and complexity. This may seem like an unorthodox approach, but I believe that the difficulty of the technical how is alleviated by the understanding of the conceptual why. As such, I made it a point not to presuppose any modeling knowledge beyond a basic understanding of SQL and to never lean on a term or concept before formally introducing it.

Following a helical structure while writing this text allowed me to carve out a clear path from the theoretical to the technical and ...