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Snowflake Cookbook

You're reading from Snowflake Cookbook

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800560611

Pages 330 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (2):

Hamid Mahmood Qureshi

Hammad Sharif

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Snowflake

2. Chapter 2: Managing the Data Life Cycle

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

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud analytics solution that uses the cloud's flexibility and cost benefits but does not compromise on providing the user with a database-like environment. It allows the user to manage data using familiar concepts. Moreover, it allows the user to use SQL to query data. This chapter will provide you with an introduction to Snowflake's architecture and its different components. Then, you'll learn how to connect to Snowflake via its Web UI. You will also be introduced to the concept of a Virtual warehouse and how a Virtual warehouse can be used elastically according to the complexity of user queries. Later, we move onto the ecosystem support for Snowflake, explaining how Snowflake can be connected to and used with diverse tools using different interfaces.

The following recipes will be covered in this chapter:

Creating a new Snowflake instance
Creating a tailored multi-cluster virtual warehouse

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Authors (2)

Hamid Mahmood Qureshi

Hamid Qureshi is a senior cloud and data warehouse professional with almost two decades of total experience, having architected, designed, and led the implementation of several data warehouse and business intelligence solutions. He has extensive experience and certifications across various data analytics platforms, ranging from Teradata, Oracle, and Hadoop to modern, cloud-based tools such as Snowflake. Having worked extensively with traditional technologies, combined with his knowledge of modern platforms, he has accumulated substantial practical expertise in data warehousing and analytics in Snowflake, which he has subsequently captured in his publications.

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Hammad Sharif

Hammad Sharif is an experienced data architect with more than a decade of experience in the information domain, covering governance, warehousing, data lakes, streaming data, and machine learning. He has worked with a leading data warehouse vendor for a decade as part of a professional services organization, advising customers in telco, retail, life sciences, and financial industries located in Asia, Europe, and Australia during presales and post-sales implementation cycles. Hammad holds an MSc. in computer science and has published conference papers in the domains of machine learning, sensor networks, software engineering, and remote sensing.

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