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Submitted by kim_seoul· Mar 30, 2026Designing data processing systems

Question

You are designing a data warehouse in BigQuery to analyze sales data for a telecommunication service provider. You need to create a data model for customers, products, and subscriptions. All customers, products, and subscriptions can be updated monthly, but you must maintain a historical record of all data. You plan to use the visualization layer for current and historical reporting. You need to ensure that the data model is simple, easy-to-use, and cost-effective. What should you do?

Options

  • ACreate a normalized model with tables for each entity. Use snapshots before updates to track historical data.
  • BCreate a normalized model with tables for each entity. Keep all input files in a Cloud Storage bucket to track historical data.
  • CCreate a denormalized model with nested and repeated fields. Update the table and use snapshots to track historical data.
  • DCreate a denormalized, append-only model with nested and repeated fields. Use the ingestion timestamp to track historical data.

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#BigQuery#Data Modeling#Historical Data#Cost Optimization
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