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Snowflake Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach to Implementing Modern Data Pipelines
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Snowflake Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach to Implementing Modern Data Pipelines

by Dillon Dayton, John Eipe
December 2024
Intermediate to advanced
413 pages
7h 18m
English
Apress
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D. Dayton, J. EipeSnowflake Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0938-5_6

6. Programmable Data Pipelines

Dillon Dayton1   and John Eipe2
(1)
Box Elder, SD, USA
(2)
Austin, TX, USA
 

Though SQL is a fundamental skill for data engineers, one might need to go beyond plain SQL often in today’s world. Using programming languages (like Python) and other frameworks like Spark provides the flexibility to write complex programmatic constructs within their data pipeline.

Language constructs and data structures like DataFrames have gained significant popularity over SQL and traditional drag-and-drop ETL (extract, transform, load) tools in the world of data for several ...
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