Mastering Snowflake Solutions starts with a refresher on Snowflake's unique architecture before getting into the advanced concepts that make Snowflake the market-leading product it is today. Progressing through each chapter, you will learn how to leverage storage, query processing, cloning, data sharing, and continuous data protection features. This approach allows for greater operational agility in responding to the needs of modern enterprises, for example in supporting agile development techniques via database cloning. The practical examples and in-depth background on theory in this book help you unleash the power of Snowflake in building a high-performance system with little to no administrative overhead. Your result from reading will be a deep understanding of Snowflake that enables taking full advantage of Snowflake's architecture to deliver value analytics insight to your business.
What You Will Learn
Who This Book Is for
Data engineers, scientists, and architects who have had some exposure to the Snowflake data platform or bring some experience from working with another relational database. This book is for those beginning to struggle with new challenges as their Snowflake environment begins to mature, becoming more complex with ever increasing amounts of data, users, and requirements. New problems require a new approach and this book aims to arm you with the practical knowledge required to take advantage of Snowflake's unique architecture to get the results you need.