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While Snowflake comes with a good deal of sample data, let’s create our own sample database. I’m going to call mine dbSample. Note that the name of the database I have chosen describes what it is (a “sample” database) and starts with “db” so that anyone looking at the name can guess it is a…
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Snowflake is a multi-feature online data warehouse platform. Like any other database platform (SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB) there is a lot to learn, and more than once, I have found myself asking the question “Where is…?” So I am going to concentrate on just a few areas. First, in the lower-left corner of the screen,…
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I don’t plan to build anything large in Snowflake, because I don’t want to run up a big bill. That said, I do recognize that I will incur some cost with my Snowflake enterprise subscription (and so will you.) If you skipped the earlier post about cost, you can catch up here. A Resource Monitor…
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In order to access all the features of Snowflake that I would like to discuss, I am going to purchase an Enterprise plan. At the time of this writing, the cost is $3.00 per credit. I do not plan to do anything outrageously expensive, but just in case, I will configure my system to warn…
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Hello! My name is David. I’ve been using Snowflake on and off for about a year now. I would like to get to know it better, so I am blogging my experience. I am glad you are joining me! Snowflake is great as a data warehouse for a variety of reasons. First, unlike Oracle and…