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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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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

Connecting Snowflake with Apache Spark

Spark is a general-purpose data processing engine that can connect with different technologies. This recipe walks you through downloading the drivers and performing the configuration required to connect Spark with Snowflake. For simplicity, we will be performing the configuration on a standalone version of Spark running on an on-premise machine, but these instructions are portable to Spark clusters running on cloud platforms as well.

Getting ready

You will need to be connected to your Snowflake instance via the Web UI or the SnowSQL client to execute this recipe.

Note

This recipe assumes that Spark is installed and configured on your machine or that you have access to a cloud-based Spark installation.

How to do it

We will locate the JDBC driver and the Snowflake connector for Spark and use them to configure Spark connectivity with Snowflake:

  1. Our first step will be to identify the correct version of the Snowflake Connector...
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