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Snowflake is a unique cloud-based data warehousing platform built from scratch to perform data management on the cloud. This book introduces you to Snowflake's unique architecture, which places it at the forefront of cloud data warehouses. You'll explore the compute model available with Snowflake, and find out how Snowflake allows extensive scaling through the virtual warehouses. You will then learn how to configure a virtual warehouse for optimizing cost and performance. Moving on, you'll get to grips with the data ecosystem and discover how Snowflake integrates with other technologies for staging and loading data. As you progress through the chapters, you will leverage Snowflake's capabilities to process a series of SQL statements using tasks to build data pipelines and find out how you can create modern data solutions and pipelines designed to provide high performance and scalability. You will also get to grips with creating role hierarchies, adding custom roles, and setting default roles for users before covering advanced topics such as data sharing, cloning, and performance optimization. By the end of this Snowflake book, you will be well-versed in Snowflake's architecture for building modern analytical solutions and understand best practices for solving commonly faced problems using practical recipes.

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Get to grips with data warehousing techniques aligned with Snowflake s cloud architecture

Broaden your skills as a data warehouse designer to cover the Snowflake ecosystem

Transfer skills from on-premise data warehousing to the Snowflake cloud analytics platform

Optimize performance and costs associated with a Snowflake solution

Stage data on object stores and load it into Snowflake

Secure data and share it efficiently for access

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Nandkishor Aher Apr 10, 2021

I am amazed to go through this book. Authors has put their experience in simple yet detailed words that the concepts are easier to understand. I must say, I like the simplicity, to point guidance. I can sense the depth knowledge and have listed small small important aspects very neatly. This book is really a bible one can follow. I am happy with this..hope other would like to experience this too. I congratulate author and Publication team a huge success.

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Tea Anemone Apr 10, 2021

Snowflake is gaining popularity and no wonder I was excited to get a hold of this book as an introduction to Snowflake’s capabilities. Overall, it provides a good overview of Snowflake functionality, covering a wide range of topics - from basic setup of a Snowflake instance (for free with trial!), data lifecycle management, security, cost management (important topic not to be overlooked in enterprise environment), all the way to advanced tasks such as integrating your Snowflake data warehouse with the rest of your data processing platform.This cookbook is a good find for anyone who wants to educate themselves in basic data warehousing principles: the recipes illustrate day to day data engineering tasks. It is interesting to go over the recipe and compare the functionality of a Snowflake instance with, for example, an Azure Synapse SQL pool instance. I guarantee you'll learn something new even if you were in data engineering field for a while.My only disappointment was that all recipes pertaining to external data storage refer to AWS. If you use a different platform (Snowflake supports Azure and Google Cloud as well) - prepare to invest additional time into figuring out how to setup and connect to those sources, because those specifics are completely omitted from the recipes.

Martin Apr 27, 2021

Ive been using snowflake for a year and I wish I’d had this book from day 1.Cookbooks are as good as the recipes and this one gets you up and running really quickly.How much it will be as reference is open to debate once you get up to speed, I’ll maybe add to the review later, but for those new to Snowflake it does clearly give you details on things that are maybe not that obvious in Snowflake help.One thing I found, following the practical steps you may often be last asking the question “Why?”As it isn’t always clear at the time. But the “How it works sections” afterwards clears thing up in straightforward fashion.I really liked this book, it’s well written and would recommend to help get you started on some pretty cool stuff.

Dwight Gunning Apr 11, 2021

I am not an expert in Snowflake, but I am a mid-career data scientist/engineer who needs to keep current with popular and emerging technologies. So, this book turns out to be a great bookshelf read I can skim at a high level or drop into actually coding using the examples in the book. I am also a contractor so having this Snowflake book for when I need it adds to my value. But it’s not just for experts or mid career people - the Getting Started chapter is easy to read and work through as a beginner. The code examples aren’t too complicated, there are numbered steps and pictures to guide you through the examples. There is also a companion Github repo with examples. So if you are getting started in data engineering and will be working in Snowflake I recommend this book.For people who are already working in Snowflake and consider themselves experts then this Snowflake book might be too easy of high level. But it is great if you want to get productive fast.Overall the book is well written and easy to read, and the hands on examples will get you going in Snowflake. So I recommend this book.

James L. Warfield Jul 11, 2023

Twice in the last week I have searched on Google for Snowflake questions that I thought were fairly basic. After several iterations of different searches I gave up. Both were quickly answered by hitting the index of the "Cookbook"! Snowflake is relatively new and doesn't have the online mass of answers and articles that Oracle and Sql Server have. Google ends up with unrelated answers. This book solves a lot of the common, "How do I ...?" questions.

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