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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

Using SnowSQL to connect to Snowflake

Previously, we looked at how Snowflake's Web UI allows users to connect to, manage, and query data stored in Snowflake. In this recipe, you will learn how to install Snowflake's command-line interface (CLI) software and use that to connect to a Snowflake instance. You will learn how to achieve this connectivity and look at the steps and required configurations to query data over that connection.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes you are using a Linux machine and have access to the Snowflake Web UI via a compatible browser. Google Chrome is the preferred browser as Snowflake tests the Web UI extensively against Chrome. Since SnowSQL is the command-line interface for Snowflake, you will need to have command-line access to the operating system with superuser/root/administrative privileges so that you can install any necessary software.

How to do it…

Note that SnowSQL is being downloaded in the home directory of the sfuser...

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