SQL Query Optimization and Data Warehousing

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SQL Query Optimization and Data Warehousing

This course is part of Data Management, Governance & Optimization Specialization

Instructor: TSV Learning

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2 modules

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2 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

4 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Analyze data warehouse architectures and optimize star and snowflake schemas for improved SQL query performance.
Evaluate cost-based query optimization, database statistics, and advanced SQL techniques to improve analytical workloads.
Assess machine-learning-driven tuning, CPU and memory optimization, and hardware acceleration for efficient query processing.

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Learn how to optimize SQL queries and improve data warehouse performance through effective schema design, query optimization, and hardware-aware tuning. This course helps you understand how modern data warehouses process analytical workloads and how to make them more efficient.

Designed for learners interested in SQL performance tuning, data warehousing, and analytical query optimization, the course explores modern warehouse architecture, star and snowflake schemas, cost-based query optimizers, database statistics, cardinality, and selectivity. You'll apply advanced dimensional SQL, evaluate machine-learning-driven tuning and workload management, and examine how CPU caches, memory access, NUMA architectures, and parallel processing influence query performance. You'll also explore hardware-accelerated query processing using GPUs, FPGAs, and RDMA. By the end of the course, you'll be able to evaluate warehouse designs, analyze query optimization strategies, improve query-plan selection, and identify techniques for faster analytical workloads. What makes this course distinctive is its end-to-end approach, connecting SQL optimization, dimensional modeling, intelligent tuning, and hardware acceleration to help you make informed data warehouse performance decisions.

Analyze the foundations of high-performance data warehouses by examining modern warehouse mechanics, dimensional schema optimization, cost-based query optimization, and database statistics. Learners develop the ability to identify how data modeling and optimizer decisions affect SQL query performance.

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4 videos3 assignments

Apply advanced SQL and system-level optimization techniques to improve analytical workloads. Learners explore dimensional SQL, machine-learning-driven warehouse tuning, CPU and memory optimization, parallel processing, and hardware acceleration for modern data platforms.

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4 videos3 assignments

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