Loading delimited bulk data into Snowflake from your local machine
This recipe demonstrates several important concepts related to loading data from an on-premises system to your Snowflake instance. We will make use of the internal stages in Snowflake to load the data from an on-premises system. This system could be a host machine running on your network or your laptop with files to be loaded stored in its storage.
Getting ready
Since we will be loading a file from your local system into Snowflake, we will need to first get such a file ready on the local system. To save time you can download a previously created sample file from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Snowflake-Cookbook/blob/master/Chapter03/r3/customers.csv.
Now, since we will be loading data from your local system, we will need to use snowsql to upload the file to Snowflake. Please make sure that SnowSQL is installed on your system and you can successfully connect to your Snowflake instance.
