Phase 4 · SQL & Data Engineering Basics
TopicsData Warehouses (Concept)
Part of the AI Engineer Roadmap.
Summary
Centralized, structured stores (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) optimized for analytical queries across large historical datasets — where training data often lives at scale.
How to Learn This
- 1Learn the difference between a data warehouse, data lake and database at a conceptual level.
- 2Read documentation for one warehouse (e.g. BigQuery) to see how querying at scale works.
- 3Understand columnar storage and why it's fast for analytical queries.
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