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Book Review – Agile Data Warehouse Design

December 18, 2024December 18, 2024 Koen Verbeeck 2 Comments

I recently read the book Agile Data Warehouse Design – Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from Whiteboard to Star Schema (quite the title) by Lawrence Corr and Jim Stagnitto. The book was recommended to my years ago by a former colleague (the book is from 2011, with the latest revision from 2014) and it has been sitting […]

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Book Review – Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices

November 19, 2024November 25, 2024 Koen Verbeeck Leave a comment

I was asked to do a review of the book Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices 2nd edition (Amazon link), which means I got a copy for free. The book is written by Thomas Leblanc and Bhavik Merchant and published by Packt. As the title obviously implicates, the book aims to give you a set […]

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Book Review – Humanizing Data Strategy by Tiankai Feng

November 12, 2024November 12, 2024 Koen Verbeeck Leave a comment

This book was making its rounds on social media, and the concept seems interesting enough to make me want to read it. It’s a very short book (only 106 pages), but a pleasant read. It focuses on the people side of a data strategy, instead of focusing on technology and tools as sometimes many of […]

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Book Review – Fundamentals of Data Engineering

June 5, 2024June 5, 2024 Koen Verbeeck 2 Comments

This book was recommended by some of my colleagues, so I decided to give it a try. After finishing the book, I was pleased that I did. As the title might give away, it’s a book about data engineering, but not from a pure technical perspective. It won’t teach you how to write Python or […]

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Book Review – Deciphering Data Architectures

April 8, 2024April 8, 2024 Koen Verbeeck 2 Comments

I recently purchased and read the book Deciphering Data Architectures – Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh by James Serra. James – who works for Microsoft since quite some time now – has an interesting blog on data architecture and data warehousing, and I was really looking forward […]

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Book Review – Designing Data-Intensive Applications

December 29, 2022December 29, 2022 Koen Verbeeck Leave a comment

The book Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann was recommended to me by a colleague. The author has worked at companies such as LinkedIn, where he has built large distributed systems to handle data, so I guess he knows what he’s talking about 🙂 (he’s also a […]

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Book Review – SQL Server Query Tuning and Optimization (2nd Edition)

December 2, 2022December 2, 2022 Koen Verbeeck Leave a comment

The nice people from Packt Publishing sent me a digital copy of Benjamin Nevarez new book to review: SQL Server Query Tuning and Optimization – Optimize Microsoft SQL Server 2022 queries and applications. It says first edition on the cover, but that’s because it’s the first time this book has been published by Packt. The […]

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Book Review – Snowflake Security

April 2, 2022April 2, 2022 Koen Verbeeck 1 Comment

When I was working with Snowflake on a project, it seemed security (assigning roles to users, assigning permissions etc.) is not as straight forward as it is in SQL Server. That’s why I bought the book Snowflake Security – Securing Your Snowflake Data Cloud, written by Ben Herzberg and Yoav Cohen, and published by Apress. […]

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Book Review – Azure Data Factory by Example

March 29, 2022March 29, 2022 Koen Verbeeck 2 Comments

I just finished the book Azure Data Factory by Example: Practical Implementation for Data Engineers by Richard Swinbank. The book was not exactly what I was expecting, but that’s actually my fault and not the book’s. The book itself is great and is a great introduction to Azure Data Factory (ADF) and it covers almost […]

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Book Review – Mastering Snowflake Solutions: Supporting Analytics and Data Sharing

March 23, 2022March 23, 2022 Koen Verbeeck Leave a comment

Disclaimer: Apress gave me a free copy of the book to review. People that know me, also know I always give honest feedback 🙂 I had the pleasure of reading the book Mastering Snowflake Solutions: Supporting Analytics and Data Sharing. The book is aimed at data professionals who have already taken their first steps developing […]

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