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Published inFeb 2021
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Hamid Mahmood Qureshi
Hamid Mahmood Qureshi
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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
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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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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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Published in: Feb 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800560611

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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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