Beginner Big Data & Data Engineering
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Why might a data engineer intentionally "denormalize" data in an analytics warehouse?

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The correct answer is A) To reduce the number of joins needed and improve read/query performance for analytics

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Correct Answer

To reduce the number of joins needed and improve read/query performance for analytics

Explanation

Denormalization trades some redundancy for faster reads by combining related data, which is often desirable in analytical (OLAP) workloads with heavy reads.

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