Introduction to Snowflake

Snowflake is an insanely cool next generation SaaS data warehousing solution that operates in the cloud!

Engineered from the ground up, Snowflake takes advantage of the elasticity that the cloud provides – and is truly revolutionary in every aspect.

Harnessing the power of the cloud, Snowflake has unique capabilities in the form of unlimited and instant scalability, making it perhaps the ultimate data warehouse solution. Cloud elasticity is very much at the heart of Snowflake – making its unique architecture and value proposition difficult to compete with in the market.

From an end user perspective, Snowflake is incredibly appealing. Building data warehouses and petabyte data scaled solutions without having to worry about on-prem compute and storage issues means your focus remains solely on the data itself and even more importantly, the analytics you derive from

In this lesson, you'll learn about the many distinguishing features that set Snowflake apart from its competitors.

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Learning Objectives

• Learn about Snowflake and how it can provision cloud-hosted data warehouses
• Learn how to administrate a Snowflake data warehouse
• Learn how to scale Snowflake data warehouses instantly and on-demand
• Learn how to use Snowflake to perform analytics on petabyte scale and beyond datasets

Intended Audience

• Anyone interested in learning about Snowflake, and the benefits of using it to build a data warehouse in the cloud

Prerequisites

To get the most from this lesson, it would help to have a basic understanding of:

• Basic Cloud and SaaS knowledge
• Basic DBA knowledge
• Basic SQL knowledge