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GCP
6 May 2026 10 min

Materialized Views in BigQuery Explained

A materialized view stores the result of a query and keeps it current as the base table changes. This guide shows how BigQuery combines stored results with new rows, models it on 2.9 million real trips, and covers refresh settings, max_staleness, smart tuning, unsupported SQL and when a scheduled table is better.

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Data Engineering
6 May 2026 8 min

Data Modeling: Star Schema, Snowflake and Data Vault

The three main warehouse modelling approaches compared by building each from the real Chinook database: a star with 3 tables, a snowflake with 6 and a data vault with 11, the joins the same question needs in each, why all three give identical answers, what each optimises for, and how teams combine them.

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Azure Data Factory
6 May 2026 7 min

Azure Data Engineer Certification (DP-203) Guide

Exam DP-203 and the Azure Data Engineer Associate certification were retired on 31 March 2025. This guide explains what that means for people who hold it or were studying for it, what the exam covered, how the Fabric Data Engineer Associate exam DP-700 differs, and how to plan your preparation now.

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Data Engineering
6 May 2026 6 min

Distributed Systems Basics for Data Engineers

The distributed systems ideas behind Spark, Kafka and cloud warehouses, for data engineers: partitioning and hot keys, why modulo hashing moved 74% of real taxi data when a node was added and consistent hashing 23%, replication, what CAP really says, failures and retries, and why clocks cannot be trusted.

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Power BI
6 May 2026 6 min

Power BI Performance Tuning: Make Reports Faster

A method for making Power BI reports faster: measure first with Performance Analyzer and read its DAX query, visual display and other timings, then shrink the import model, reduce column cardinality on a real retail dataset, write lighter DAX, filter and simplify pages, and check capacity and gateways.

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Interview Questions
6 May 2026 7 min

Tableau Interview Questions and Answers

Tableau interviews return to one topic more than any other: when each calculation happens. This guide answers the core questions on FIXED, INCLUDE and table calculations, with the Tableau formulas and their results reproduced on a year of real online orders: one filter, two answers, 100% or 2.57%.

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