Overview
- Helps you build valuable skills in the market-leading database analytics platform and largest software IPO in history
- Covers emerging features such as Snowflake Data Sharing, Data Exchanges, and the Snowflake Data Marketplace
- Explains and shows how Snowflake’s unique architecture is different from other databases
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About this book
Snowflake was the first database made specifically to be optimized with a cloud architecture. This book helps you get started using Snowflake by first understanding its architecture and what separates it from other database platforms you may have used. You will learn about setting up users and accounts, and then creating database objects. You will know how to load data into Snowflake and query and analyze that data, including unstructured data such as data in XML and JSON formats. You will also learn about Snowflake’s compute platform and the different data sharing options that are available.
What YouWill Learn
- Run analytics in the Snowflake Data Cloud
- Create users and roles in Snowflake
- Set up security in Snowflake
- Set up resource monitors in Snowflake
- Set up and optimize Snowflake Compute
- Load, unload, and query structured and unstructured data (JSON, XML) within Snowflake
- Use Snowflake Data Sharing to share data
- Set up a Snowflake Data Exchange
- Use the Snowflake Data Marketplace
Who This Book Is For
Database professionals or information technology professionals who want to move beyond traditional database technologies by learning Snowflake, a new and massively scalable cloud-based database solution
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Raj Chirumamilla is a Snowflake Certified Architect and AWS Solutions Architect Associate with 20+ years of IT experience. He is an experienced, hands-on solutions architect working in the data and analytics area: helping customers migrate to cloud and build cost-effective and highly available solutions and data pipelines with modern data architecture frameworks. He has been working with Snowflake's Cloud Data platform for more than three years.
Bhaskar B. Joshi is a Snowflake Certified Architect with 20 years of experience in managing data on various platforms. He has been working with Snowflake for over three years in multiple industries. He is currently a hands-on Data Architect helping customers create scalable solutions using the Modern Data Architecture frameworks in the cloud.
Bjorn Lindstrom is an IT veteran with 40 years of experience in many aspects of computer technologies. He has held roles in software development, software quality assurance, database administration, large-scale big data systems, and is an experienced solutions architect. He was one of the first to be certified in Snowflake.
Ruchi Soni is a technology leader and multi-cloud enterprise architect. Her work lies in helping customers to accelerate their digital transformation journey to the cloud and to build next-generation apps on forward-looking platforms such as Snowflake. She brings extensive experience in planning, architecting, building, and scaling future-ready platforms that are highly available and agile. Ruchi is SnowPro Core certified, Google Cloud certified, AWS certified, and is a Certified Master Data Architect.
Sameer Videkar is a data expert with more than 12 years of experience working on data platforms, enterprise data warehouse systems, master data management, data migration, and ETL implementations. He is a certified Data Architect with additional certifications in Snowflake, Agile Scrum, and PMP.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Snowflake Essentials
Book Subtitle: Getting Started with Big Data in the Cloud
Authors: Frank Bell, Raj Chirumamilla, Bhaskar B. Joshi, Bjorn Lindstrom, Ruchi Soni, Sameer Videkar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7316-6
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Frank Bell, Raj Chirumamilla, Bhaskar B. Joshi, Bjorn Lindstrom, Ruchi Soni, Sameer Videkar 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-7315-9Published: 15 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-7316-6Published: 14 December 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 337
Number of Illustrations: 225 b/w illustrations
Topics: Database Management, Professional Computing, Computer Science, general, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Big Data