Snowflake Blog
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Read Blog PostThree Tips for Building Modern Data Applications
The global business intelligence (BI) and analytics software market is expected to reach $55.48 billion by 2026, with 70% of enterprises increasing their spending on real-time customer analytics...
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Read Blog PostLatest Changes to How Snowflake Handles OCSP
Snowflake client drivers (JDBC, ODBC, Python, and others) connect to a variety of endpoints over HTTPS including the Snowflake service, AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage and Okta (when using Okta for...
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Read Blog PostAdapting the Agile Manifesto Principles to Data Warehousing
Despite the clear benefits of data warehousing programs, business units often question what they perceive to be long delivery timelines and a lack of data accessibility. Nearly half (48%) of the...
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Read Blog PostData Encryption with Customer-Managed Keys for Azure
In 2017, Snowflake announced support for customer-managed keys using AWS Key Management Service (KMS). These keys, created and controlled by the Snowflake customer, are used as part of the data...
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Read Blog PostSnowflake Announces Public Preview of Database Replication Feature and Business Critical Edition
Snowflake is pleased to announce public preview of a new feature: Database Replication. Customers using Snowflake Standard edition and above can use this feature for non business continuity and...
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Read Blog PostSynthetic Data Generation at Scale – Part 2
In the first part of this post, I demonstrated how to create vast amounts of data in Snowflake using standard SQL statements. Creating the SQL statements by hand is labor-intensive, but...
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Read Blog PostWant Ubiquitous Cloud Computing with your Multi-Cloud Strategy? Go Cross-Cloud
Want ubiquitous cloud computing with your multi-cloud strategy? Better get a cross-cloud platform. The global public cloud services market is projected to reach $331.2 billion by 2021—a 54.5% ...
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Read Blog Post3 Rewards of a Well-Executed Data Governance Strategy
A 2018 DATAVERSITY report found that 42% of respondents did not have a high level of trust in their enterprise data. Why? Primarily because the volume of data and the number of data sources are...
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Read Blog PostData Modeling in the Age of JSON and Schema-on-Read
With the rise of mobile devices and applications, as well as the Internet of Things, the number and variety of data sources has grown exponentially over the past decade. IDC recently estimated...
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Read Blog Post5 Business Needs That Fuel Data Warehouse Development
The global market for data warehousing is expected to grow to $34.7 billion by 2025, according to a recent report from Allied Market Research. That’s nearly double the $18.6 billion it was worth...
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Read Blog PostSynthetic Data Generation at Scale – Part 1
During one of my recent projects, the customer asked me to run a performance comparison between Snowflake and their existing system, with the caveat that I couldn’t use their data (not even a...
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Read Blog PostHow Data Supports Collaboration Among Healthcare Practitioners: The Case for Genomic Data in Snowflake
By gathering information and creating written notes that were filed into patient charts, yesterday’s physicians practiced medicine in a silo. Although this basic form of a “single source of truth”...
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Read Blog PostBuilding a Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension in Snowflake Using Streams and Tasks: Part 2
Part 1 of this two-part post demonstrated how to build a Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) using Snowflake’s Stream functionality to set up a stream and insert data. Now, let’s automate the...
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Read Blog PostHow to manage GDPR compliance with Snowflake’s Time Travel and Disaster Recovery
One year after implementation, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) continues to be a hot regulatory topic. As organizations work to bring their data practices into...
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Read Blog PostSnowflake as Your Modern Data Lake, or even Data Ocean
Nearly 10 years have passed since the term “data lake” first emerged. The concept was compelling – a single repository for all your raw unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data. Many...
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Read Blog PostConsumers Have Some Strong Opinions About Their Personal Data
Consumers and businesses are becoming increasingly concerned over data security and privacy. Consumers are concerned about identity theft, privacy, and the unethical, undisclosed use and sharing...
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Read Blog PostBuilding a Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension in Snowflake Using Streams and Tasks: Part 1
Introduction This is Part 1 of a two-part post that explains how to build a Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) using Snowflake’s Stream functionality. The second part will explain how to...
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Read Blog PostRecognizing Partners at the 2019 Snowflake Partner Summit
Snowflake partners are integral to Snowflake’s growth. During the Snowflake Partner Summit, held in San Mateo on June 3, 2019, we brought together more than 150 representatives from Snowflake’s...
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Read Blog PostFortune 10 Customer McKesson Delivers with Snowflake
On the last day of Summit, Matthew Glickman, Snowflake VP of Customer and Product Strategy, gave the closing keynote, titled “Your Journey to Become Data Driven.” Matthew began the keynote by...
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Read Blog PostRelentless Innovation: Product Round-up for Snowflake Summit 2019
It is now Friday morning, officially the end of Snowflake Summit 2019. Though the event has come and gone in its physical form, the excitement and optimism we feel as a company remains strong....
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