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Snowflake — First concepts

Analytics Vidhya

Snowflake is an analytical DW (Data Warehouse) considered as a SaaS (Software as a Service) that provides a data warehouse that has some advantages, such as that the user doesn’t need to manage any…

Getting Started with Snowflake ❄️

Towards Data Science

Whether you’ve heard of Snowflake Inc. from its record-breaking IPO this September, or from its ever-growing presence in data job ads, there is definitely a lot of hype around this company at the…

7 reasons snowflake might not be the right option

Level Up Coding

The data warehouse is a key component of any organization’s IT strategy, serving as the central repository for all data. It is generally considered to be an expensive component to deploy and…

Snowflake and Dask

Towards Data Science

Snowflake is the most popular data warehouse among our Saturn users. This article will cover efficient ways to load Snowflake data into Dask so you can do non-sql operations (think machine learning)…

What You Can Do With Snowflake

Level Up Coding

Snowflake is a popular cloud-based data storage and analytics service. Personally, when I examine new technologies and products, I would like to have a summary of the most important features. This…

Why You Need To Know Snowflake As A Data Scientist

Towards Data Science

Maybe you heard of this name somewhere but still are not sure what exactly Snowflake does as a data warehouse and what makes it different compared to other platforms. I just started knowing more…

Revolutionary features of Snowflake that sets it apart — A Deep dive

Towards Data Science

Lately, I got the chance to attend Snowflake summit in Sydney. I learnt a few things and thought to try it on the actual data. Tentative at first but after using it on 40GB of data, I realized there…

Snowflake with Spark

Analytics Vidhya

Snowflake is a cloud-based SQL data warehouse that focuses on a great performance, zero-tuning, diversity of data sources, and security. The Snowflake Connector for Spark enables using Snowflake as…

Data Analysis with Snowflake

Analytics Vidhya

Example using Snowflake Database to load NOAA weather data staged in a cloud storage bucket. Data cleaning in SQL and authenticating Snowflake to external cloud storage bucket.

Using Snowflake? Don’t Make These Expensive Mistakes

Level Up Coding

Since the beginning of (database) times, databases have always been there for us, up 24/7, eagerly waiting to serve the next query. I am pretty sure that if we were to add all the database idle time…

Car buying is fun with Snowflake

Analytics Vidhya

Like everyone else, I found car buying process complex and time consuming. Mainly so because one has to visit many dealer’s website for inventory to look for the perfect car with all the desired…

Implementing Snowflake Algorithm in Golang

Better Programming

Snowflake in action Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash The background of the snowflake algorithm is, of course, the demand for unique ID generation in the high concurrency environment of Twitter. Than...