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A lot of articles I read about snowflake involves data vault which is a massive turn off. And when their tech lead (Kent Graziano) is a prominent figure in the DV bullshit...


Snowflake and DV have no interdependency whatsoever. Snowflake is just a database. Whether you use DV to model the data inside of it or dimensional modelling or "big wide tables" is completely up to you, there's nothing about it that requires or benefits DV in particular.


What is DV?


Count not knowing what it is, as a blessing. Run if you can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_vault_modeling

Edit: As the Wikipedia article has no Criticism section I will add some references:

http://kejser.org/the-data-vault-vs-kimball-round-2/

https://timi.eu/blog/data-vaulting-from-a-bad-idea-to-ineffi...


It's a data modelling method for data warehouses, it can be used in Snowflake or on any other data management platform.




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