Snowflake
Snowflake Description
Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing platform designed to handle large volumes of data and enable organizations to analyze and derive insights from their data effectively. It is built on a unique architecture that separates storage and compute resources, allowing for scalable and flexible data processing in a highly efficient manner.
Key features of Snowflake include:
- Architecture:
Snowflake uses a multi-cluster, shared data architecture, where data storage and compute resources are decoupled. This separation allows for independent scaling of storage and compute, providing flexibility and cost efficiency. - Data Storage:
Snowflake utilizes a columnar storage format optimized for analytical queries, enabling efficient storage and retrieval of data. It supports structured and semi-structured data formats, including JSON, Avro, Parquet, and more. - Compute Resources:
Snowflake offers compute resources on-demand, allowing users to scale compute power based on workload requirements. This elasticity ensures optimal performance for data processing and analytics tasks, without the need for managing infrastructure. - Concurrency:
Snowflake provides built-in support for concurrent data processing and analytics workloads. It dynamically allocates compute resources to queries, ensuring consistent performance even during peak usage periods. - Data Sharing:
Snowflake enables secure and controlled sharing of data across different organizations, departments, or teams. Users can easily share data sets with external parties while maintaining data governance and access controls.
- Snowflake Overview
- Architecture
- How to use the Snowflake UI & ecosystem
- What is Cloud
- Different Cloud Vendors
- Advantages of Cloud over On-Premise
- What is a Data Warehouse, and Why do we need a Data Warehouse?
- Database Vs Data Warehouse.
- Data Warehouse Architecture
- OLTP Vs OLAP
- What is ETL
- How different from traditional DB
- Quick start to the snowflake and accessing trial account
- Creating warehouse, DB, Schema, and tables
- Accessing different roles and using it
- Working with worksheets
- Understanding different type of accounts
- AWS and understanding S3 storage
- Snowflake architecture and caching
- AZURE and understanding blob storage
- GCP and understanding Bucket storage
- File formats
- Internal and external storage
- Internal and external stage
- Copy into usage
- Snowflake internal storage
- Accessing Cloud storage data into Snowflake (GCP, AZURE and AWS)
- Data unloading
- Accessing Snowpipe
- PUT and GET commands
- Bulk loading from cloud storage
- Continuous loading
- Snowflake Connector and use cases Python
- BI connectors use cases
- Other connectors hands-on
- Variant Data Type
- File format options
- Creating stages
- Loading JSON semi-structured data into SF tables
- Accessing JSON with select statement
- Creating Tasks
- Streams
- Accessing procedures with tasks
- Scheduling as per time with Different time zones
- Automate loading process Daily and Weekly
- Usage of sharing data
- Sharing data with different accounts
- Sharing data with non-SF accounts using reader accounts
- Importance of reader accounts
- Privileges in data sharing
- Challenges with cross-region sharing and understanding replication
- Connecting shared objects with BI tools
- Limitations with Data sharing
- Limitations with Data sharing
- Access Control Privileges for Cloned Objects
- Cloning and Snowflake Objects
- Impact of DDL on Cloning
- Impact of DML and Data Retention on Cloning
- Introduction to Time Travel
- Querying Historical Data
- Enabling and Disabling Time Travel
- Data Retention Period
- Cloning Using Time Travel (Databases, Schemas, and Tables Only)
- Creating multi-users on large tables
- Performance techniques
- Result set cache
- Metadata cache
- Query data cache
- Best practices of using caching for performance and cost optimization
- Error Handling and Validations
- Snowflake Pricing model and selecting best Edition and Calculation of Credits usage
- Resource Monitoring
- Data Masking
- Partitioning and Clustering in snowflake
- Materialized View and Normal View
- Integration with Python
- Integration with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
- Best Practices to follow
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