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Snowflake Cookbook

You're reading from   Snowflake Cookbook Techniques for building modern cloud data warehousing solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560611
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hamid Mahmood Qureshi Hamid Mahmood Qureshi
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Hammad Sharif Hammad Sharif
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Hammad Sharif
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Snowflake 2. Chapter 2: Managing the Data Life Cycle FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Loading and Extracting Data into and out of Snowflake 4. Chapter 4: Building Data Pipelines in Snowflake 5. Chapter 5: Data Protection and Security in Snowflake 6. Chapter 6: Performance and Cost Optimization 7. Chapter 7: Secure Data Sharing 8. Chapter 8: Back to the Future with Time Travel 9. Chapter 9: Advanced SQL Techniques 10. Chapter 10: Extending Snowflake Capabilities 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud analytics solution that uses the cloud's flexibility and cost benefits but does not compromise on providing the user with a database-like environment. It allows the user to manage data using familiar concepts. Moreover, it allows the user to use SQL to query data. This chapter will provide you with an introduction to Snowflake's architecture and its different components. Then, you'll learn how to connect to Snowflake via its Web UI. You will also be introduced to the concept of a Virtual warehouse and how a Virtual warehouse can be used elastically according to the complexity of user queries. Later, we move onto the ecosystem support for Snowflake, explaining how Snowflake can be connected to and used with diverse tools using different interfaces.

The following recipes will be covered in this chapter:

  • Creating a new Snowflake instance
  • Creating a tailored multi-cluster virtual warehouse
  • ...
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