Snowflake: The Definitive Guide: Architecting, Designing, and Deploying on the Snowflake Data Cloud

by Joyce Kay Avila

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

Genres: Technical

443 pages, Paperback

First published September 22, 2022

Reviews

[Michael Koltsov · Rating 4 out of 5]

Is Snowflake becoming a commodity when anyone can start its own version for free?

Well, that's highly unlikely in the nearest term. However, Snowflake is so expensive and likes to charge for resources you didn't ask for that I'd love this to happen.

Despite my overall resentment to the platform, the book is great. Built on strong platform, sharing all the best patterns, amazing actually working examples on Github. Probably, the only book you'll ever need to read about Snowflake in the age of AI.

Score 4/5

[Sezin Sezgin · Rating 3 out of 5]

tbh, a bit meh for the already upper-intermediate users. We've read this with our DE team together and was not mindblown besides couple of nice tips. Skipped some chapters totally. Might be fine for the users who are totally stranger to snowflake.

[Sergio Ramos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great overview of Snowflake! Pretty comprehensive. Because technology moves so fast, a small portion of the book is a bit out of date, and features dropped since the release aren't covered (obviously). I do hear a second edition is in the works.

[Rumyana Tzoneva · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice introduction to and general overview of Snowflake's architecture and main capabilities.

[Nick · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a good overview of the program and it's features. Good for those who want to know capabilities.