Snowflake Cookbook.
Techniques for building modern cloud data warehousing solutions
Published on 25. February 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
330 pages
978-1-80056-061-1 (ISBN)
Description
Develop modern solutions with Snowflake s unique architecture and integration capabilities; process bulk and real-time data into a data lake; and leverage time travel, cloning, and data-sharing features to optimize data operations
Key Features
Build and scale modern data solutions using the all-in-one Snowflake platform
Perform advanced cloud analytics for implementing big data and data science solutions
Make quicker and better-informed business decisions by uncovering key insights from your data
Book DescriptionSnowflake is a unique cloud-based data warehousing platform built from scratch to perform data management on the cloud. This book introduces you to Snowflake's unique architecture, which places it at the forefront of cloud data warehouses.
You'll explore the compute model available with Snowflake, and find out how Snowflake allows extensive scaling through the virtual warehouses. You will then learn how to configure a virtual warehouse for optimizing cost and performance. Moving on, you'll get to grips with the data ecosystem and discover how Snowflake integrates with other technologies for staging and loading data.
As you progress through the chapters, you will leverage Snowflake's capabilities to process a series of SQL statements using tasks to build data pipelines and find out how you can create modern data solutions and pipelines designed to provide high performance and scalability. You will also get to grips with creating role hierarchies, adding custom roles, and setting default roles for users before covering advanced topics such as data sharing, cloning, and performance optimization.
By the end of this Snowflake book, you will be well-versed in Snowflake's architecture for building modern analytical solutions and understand best practices for solving commonly faced problems using practical recipes.What you will learn
Get to grips with data warehousing techniques aligned with Snowflake s cloud architecture
Broaden your skills as a data warehouse designer to cover the Snowflake ecosystem
Transfer skills from on-premise data warehousing to the Snowflake cloud analytics platform
Optimize performance and costs associated with a Snowflake solution
Stage data on object stores and load it into Snowflake
Secure data and share it efficiently for access
Manage transactions and extend Snowflake using stored procedures
Extend cloud data applications using Spark Connector
Who this book is forThis book is for data warehouse developers, data analysts, database administrators, and anyone involved in designing, implementing, and optimizing a Snowflake data warehouse. Knowledge of data warehousing and database and cloud concepts will be useful. Basic familiarity with Snowflake is beneficial, but not necessary.
Key Features
Build and scale modern data solutions using the all-in-one Snowflake platform
Perform advanced cloud analytics for implementing big data and data science solutions
Make quicker and better-informed business decisions by uncovering key insights from your data
Book DescriptionSnowflake is a unique cloud-based data warehousing platform built from scratch to perform data management on the cloud. This book introduces you to Snowflake's unique architecture, which places it at the forefront of cloud data warehouses.
You'll explore the compute model available with Snowflake, and find out how Snowflake allows extensive scaling through the virtual warehouses. You will then learn how to configure a virtual warehouse for optimizing cost and performance. Moving on, you'll get to grips with the data ecosystem and discover how Snowflake integrates with other technologies for staging and loading data.
As you progress through the chapters, you will leverage Snowflake's capabilities to process a series of SQL statements using tasks to build data pipelines and find out how you can create modern data solutions and pipelines designed to provide high performance and scalability. You will also get to grips with creating role hierarchies, adding custom roles, and setting default roles for users before covering advanced topics such as data sharing, cloning, and performance optimization.
By the end of this Snowflake book, you will be well-versed in Snowflake's architecture for building modern analytical solutions and understand best practices for solving commonly faced problems using practical recipes.What you will learn
Get to grips with data warehousing techniques aligned with Snowflake s cloud architecture
Broaden your skills as a data warehouse designer to cover the Snowflake ecosystem
Transfer skills from on-premise data warehousing to the Snowflake cloud analytics platform
Optimize performance and costs associated with a Snowflake solution
Stage data on object stores and load it into Snowflake
Secure data and share it efficiently for access
Manage transactions and extend Snowflake using stored procedures
Extend cloud data applications using Spark Connector
Who this book is forThis book is for data warehouse developers, data analysts, database administrators, and anyone involved in designing, implementing, and optimizing a Snowflake data warehouse. Knowledge of data warehousing and database and cloud concepts will be useful. Basic familiarity with Snowflake is beneficial, but not necessary.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
618 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80056-061-1 (9781800560611)
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Techniques for building modern cloud data warehousing solutions
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Hamid Qureshi is a senior cloud and data warehouse professional with almost two decades of total experience, having architected, designed, and led the implementation of several data warehouse and business intelligence solutions. He has extensive experience and certifications across various data analytics platforms, ranging from Teradata, Oracle, and Hadoop to modern, cloud-based tools such as Snowflake. Having worked extensively with traditional technologies, combined with his knowledge of modern platforms, he has accumulated substantial practical expertise in data warehousing and analytics in Snowflake, which he has subsequently captured in his publications. Hammad Sharif is an experienced data architect with more than a decade of experience in the information domain, covering governance, warehousing, data lakes, streaming data, and machine learning.
He has worked with a leading data warehouse vendor for a decade as part of a professional services organization, advising customers in telco, retail, life sciences, and financial industries located in Asia, Europe, and Australia during presales and post-sales implementation cycles.
Hammad holds an MSc. in computer science and has published conference papers in the domains of machine learning, sensor networks, software engineering, and remote sensing.
He has worked with a leading data warehouse vendor for a decade as part of a professional services organization, advising customers in telco, retail, life sciences, and financial industries located in Asia, Europe, and Australia during presales and post-sales implementation cycles.
Hammad holds an MSc. in computer science and has published conference papers in the domains of machine learning, sensor networks, software engineering, and remote sensing.
Content
Table of Contents
Getting Started with Snowflake
Managing the Data Life Cycle
Loading and Extracting Data into and out of Snowflake
Building Data Pipelines in Snowflake
Data Protection and Security in Snowflake
Performance and Cost Optimization
Secure Data Sharing
Back to the Future with Time Travel
Advanced SQL Techniques
Extending Snowflake's Capabilities
Getting Started with Snowflake
Managing the Data Life Cycle
Loading and Extracting Data into and out of Snowflake
Building Data Pipelines in Snowflake
Data Protection and Security in Snowflake
Performance and Cost Optimization
Secure Data Sharing
Back to the Future with Time Travel
Advanced SQL Techniques
Extending Snowflake's Capabilities