Data Modeling Strategies

This course offers a deep dive into designing data models within the Databricks Lakehouse environment, and understanding the data products lifecycle. Participants will learn to align business requirements with data organization and model design leveraging Delta Lake and Unity Catalog for defining data architectures, and techniques for data integration and sharing.

Prerequisites: Foundational knowledge equivalent to Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate and familiarity with many topics covered in Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional.

Experience with:

• Basic SQL queries and table creation on Databricks
• Lakehouse architecture fundamentals (medallion layers)
• Unity Catalog concepts (high-level)
• [Optional] Familiarity with data warehousing concepts (dimensional modeling, 3NF, etc.) is beneficial but not mandatory.

Labs: Yes