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 SQL Server, Snowflake is completely cloud-hosted.  Gone are the days of climate-controlled server rooms.  Snowflake takes care of all that.

Second, Snowflake is pay-as-you-go.  You do not have to invest a lot of money into Snowflake in order to use it.  You simply pay for the data storage, transfer, and compute costs.  Credit costs vary due a number of factors, but it is inexpensive to get started.  You can read more about Snowflake cost here.

Third, Snowflake has great data-sharing options.  If you need to share data with a vendor or other stakeholder, you can do so easily and without a great deal of configuration

Fourth, Snowflake has great ETL tools for bringing in data from various sources.

Finally, Snowflake is powerful.  You can host a bundle of data on their servers, and scale up quickly.

We will be exploring many of these features and more as we go.  Thanks for joining me!