June 2022
Beginner to intermediate
630 pages
13h 18m
English
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It is very common that, after completing a data analysis task, in which data is extracted from a source system, processed, transformed, and possibly modeled, the output is stored in a database for persistence. You can always store the data in a flat file or export to a CSV, but when dealing with a large amount of corporate data (including proprietary data), you will need a more robust and secure way to store it. Databases offer several advantages, including security (encryption at rest), concurrency (allowing many users to query the database without impacting performance), fault tolerance, ACID compliance, optimized read-write mechanisms, distributed computing, and distributed storage.
In a corporate ...