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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

Optimizing virtual warehouse scale

This recipe will explore how we can expand the number of concurrent queries that a virtual warehouse can process and identify the optimal sizing for your virtual warehouses. This entails analyzing query usage for each virtual warehouse and identifying whether the warehouse can process an additional load of queries concurrently or is limited. If it is struggling to match the demand from the workload, we will see how we can resize the cluster or virtual warehouse to an optimal size from a processing and billing perspective.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will use Snowflake's web UI to show how to use different tools to put a load on the warehouse. We intend to use benchmarking queries in this case, which are available with Snowflake. Secondly, we shall be exploring analytics provided within the web UI to help understand the workload and actions that we can take based on the analysis.

How to do it…

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