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Managing transactions in Snowflake

Snowflake is an ACID-compliant database system. ACID is an acronym for atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability, a set of properties for database transactions that ensure that the data in a database remains valid during operations that change the data, regardless of errors and failures. This recipe will provide you with insights into how to use transactions in Snowflake. The different concepts around isolation will be covered in this recipe. Snowflake's limitations will also be explained, particularly around the scope of a transaction, how commits and rollbacks work, and how the session is important in managing transaction behavior.

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Note that this recipe's steps can be run either in the Snowflake WebUI or the SnowSQL command-line client.

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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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