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Snowflake's ability to eliminate data silos and run workloads from a single platform creates opportunities to democratize data analytics, allowing users at all levels within an organization to make data-driven decisions. Whether you're an IT professional working in data warehousing or data science, a business analyst or technical manager, or an aspiring data professional wanting to get more hands-on experience with the Snowflake platform, this book is for you.

You'll learn how Snowflake users can build modern integrated data applications and develop new revenue streams based on data. Using hands-on SQL examples, you'll also discover how the Snowflake Data Cloud helps you accelerate data science by avoiding replatforming or migrating data unnecessarily.

You'll be able to:

  • Efficiently capture, store, and process large amounts of data at an amazing speed
  • Ingest and transform real-time data feeds in both structured and semistructured formats and deliver meaningful data insights within minutes
  • Use Snowflake Time Travel and zero-copy cloning to produce a sensible data recovery strategy that balances system resilience with ongoing storage costs
  • Securely share data and reduce or eliminate data integration costs by accessing ready-to-query datasets available in the Snowflake Marketplace

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Snowflake: The Definitive Guide

From the Preface

Who Is This Book For?

This book is essential reading for technical practitioners working in the areas of data warehousing, data science, and data analysis, as well as for anyone who wants to set themselves apart as a Snowflake certified professional. There is also a lot of value in this book for data stakeholders such as IT team leads, technical managers, and directors of technical teams or those who want to keep current with modern data technologies and trends.While it is not necessary to have knowledge about nonrelational databases and other data-related tools, you should at least be familiar with relational databases and SQL.

You’ll get the most out of this book if you have at least one-to-two years of experience in any of the following data-related roles:

  • Data architect
  • Data engineer
  • Data analyst
  • Data scientist
  • Database administrator
  • Technical manager

Goals of the Book

This book was written with plenty of hands-on examples to help you build a solid foundational knowledge of Snowflake.By the end of this book, you will understand:How the unique Snowflake architecture efficiently captures, stores, and processes large amounts of data at an amazing speed

  • How to rapidly ingest and transform real-time data feeds in both structured and semi-structured formats and deliver meaningful data insights within minutes
  • How to use Time Travel and zero-copy cloning to produce a sensible data recovery strategy that balances the need for system resilience with ongoing storage costs
  • How to securely share data and how to reduce or eliminate data integration costs by accessing fresh, ready-to-query data sets available within the Snowflake Data Marketplace

And you’ll be able to:

  • Deploy, size, and monitor virtual warehouses to maximize query performance and throughput while also controlling cost
  • Implement a role-based access control system, use dynamic data masking, and take advantage of discretionary access control and secure views to protect and limit data access
  • Enable Snowsight to support data analysts’ ability to work even more efficiently in the new Snowflake web interface
  • Follow Snowflake best practices and avoid common pitfalls to achieve world-class results

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About the Author

Joyce Kay Avila has more than 25 years as a business and technology leader. She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the fields of computer science and accounting business administration, and completed her PhD coursework in accounting information systems.

Joyce holds 17 Salesforce certifications and accreditations, and is Tableau certified. She is a Salesforce All Star Ranger and a Salesforce Einstein Champion alumni. She is also certified in Snowflake and is a Snowflake Data Superhero.

For the Salesforce and Snowflake communities, Joyce produces a running series of how-to-videos on her YouTube channel. She is also the author of the O’Reilly Snowflake: The Definitive Guide

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 20, 2022
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 465 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1098103823
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1098103828
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1 x 9 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #802,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars (52)

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About the Author:

Joyce Kay Avila has more than 25 years as a business and technology leader. She has bachelor's and master's degrees in the fields of computer science and accounting business administration, and completed her PhD coursework in accounting information systems.

Joyce holds 22 Salesforce certifications and accreditations, and is Slack and Tableau certified. She has earned the rank of Salesforce All Star Ranger and Agentblazer Legend and is a Salesforce Einstein Champion alumni. She is also certified in Snowflake and is a Snowflake Data Superhero (DSH).

For the Salesforce and Snowflake communities, Joyce produces a running series of how-to-videos on her YouTube channel. She is also the author of three O'Reilly books: Snowflake: The Definitive Guide [2022], Hands-on Salesforce Data Cloud [2024], and Salesforce AI [2026].