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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

Creating a tailored multi-cluster virtual warehouse

While creating a standard virtual warehouse is a straightforward affair, configuring a virtual warehouse that the standard options have been customized for can be a slightly more involved process. In this recipe, we will create a new multi-cluster virtual warehouse and set the scaling configuration so that the virtual warehouse can scale up and down on demand. We will also configure some advanced parameters to allow a higher number of concurrent queries to be executed.

Getting ready

To create a multi-cluster virtual warehouse, you must have the Enterprise or higher edition of Snowflake. If you run the following statements on a lower edition, you will likely receive an error stating 'MULTI_CLUSTER_WAREHOUSES' not enabled. Your user should have the SYSADMIN role or higher since the SYSADMIN (or the even higher ACCOUNTADMIN) role can create a virtual warehouse.

How to do it…

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