Mastering Snowflake Platform

Embark on the data journey with the ultimate guide to Snowflake masteryKey Features? Learn about Snowflake cloud-based data architecture and its basics.? Learn and implement Snowflake’s unified features with use cases.? Design and deploy robust enterprise data architectures with Snowflake.DescriptionHandling ever evolving data for business needs can get complex. Traditional methods create bulky and costly-to-maintain data systems. Here Snowflake emerges as a cost-effective solution catering to both traditional and modern data needs with zero or minimal maintenance costs.This book helps you grasp Snowflake guiding you to create complete solutions from start to finish. The starting focus covers Snowflake architecture key features native loading and unloading capabilities ANSI SQL support and processing of diverse data types and objects. The next part utilizes acquired knowledge to look into implementing data security governance and collaborations utilizing Snowflake's features like data sharing and cloning.The final part explores advanced topics including streams tasks performance optimizations cost efficiencies and operationalization with automated monitoring. Real-time use cases and reference architectures are provided to assist readers in implementing data warehouse data lake and data mesh solutions with Snowflake.What you will learn? Introduction to Snowflake and its three-layered architecture.? Understand Snowflake’s native features.? Understand the different types of data workloads and their architecture designs? Implement query and cost performance optimization using Snowflake native services.? Introduction to Snowflake’s advanced features like dynamic and event tables.? Snowflake’s capabilities with extended support to implement large language models.Who this book is forThis book is for data practitioners data engineers data architects or every data enthusiast who is keen on learning Snowflake. It does not need any prior experience however it is beneficial to have a basic understanding of cloud computing data concepts and basic programming skills.Table of Contents1. Getting Started with Snowflake2. Three Layered Architecture3. Data Types Data Objects and SQL Commands4. Data Loading and Unloading5. Understanding Streams and Tasks6. Understanding Snowpark7. Access Control and Managing Users Roles8. Data Protection and Recovery9. Snowflake Performance Optimization10. Understanding Snowflake Costing and Utilizations11. Implementing Cost Optimizations12. Data Sharing13. Data Cloning14. Understanding Snowsight15. Programming Connectors and Drivers16. Workload Patterns with Snowflake17. Introduction to Snowflake’s Advance Features