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Published inMay 2023
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ISBN-139781837634453
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Serge Gershkovich
Serge Gershkovich
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Serge Gershkovich

Serge Gershkovich is a seasoned data architect with decades of experience designing and maintaining enterprise-scale data warehouse platforms and reporting solutions. He is a leading subject matter expert, speaker, content creator, and Snowflake Data Superhero. Serge earned a bachelor of science degree in information systems from the State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook. Throughout his career, Serge has worked in model-driven development from SAP BW/HANA to dashboard design to cost-effective cloud analytics with Snowflake. He currently serves as product success lead at SqlDBM, an online database modeling tool.
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The exceptional time traveler

What changed? This a question that’s been asked since the first data manipulation language (DML) operations were performed on a database. While Snowflake’s built-in table change tracking and streams can help answer this question, they are not enabled on tables by default. However, even in Snowflake’s Standard edition, all tables have a default time travel data retention period of one day.

The time travel feature can be combined with the EXCEPT set operator to isolate and compare any changes made. The exercise uses a randomly generated filter when selecting which records to update to make things interesting. The only way to solve the mystery is to use Snowflake’s exceptional time-traveling powers.

The exercise is explained in the file titled 01_exceptional_time_travel.sql.

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Published in: May 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837634453

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Serge Gershkovich

Serge Gershkovich is a seasoned data architect with decades of experience designing and maintaining enterprise-scale data warehouse platforms and reporting solutions. He is a leading subject matter expert, speaker, content creator, and Snowflake Data Superhero. Serge earned a bachelor of science degree in information systems from the State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook. Throughout his career, Serge has worked in model-driven development from SAP BW/HANA to dashboard design to cost-effective cloud analytics with Snowflake. He currently serves as product success lead at SqlDBM, an online database modeling tool.
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