Snowflake Blog
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Read Blog Post5 Reasons Why I Joined Snowflake After Google
For the better part of the last decade and a half, I was responsible for the data analytics infrastructure team at Google. During my first eight years there, my team and I worked on building the...
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Read Blog PostSnowflake Connector for Azure Data Factory (ADF)
Last year, I wrote two blog posts on building enterprise Azure data and analytics solutions around Snowflake. In Part 1, I wrote specifically about how to connect Azure Data Factory (ADF) to...
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Read Blog PostHow to Operate Snowflake More Effectively, Securely, and Efficiently
Companies of all sizes use Snowflake’s cloud-built data platform to achieve instant and infinite scalability. Because of its multi-cluster, shared data architecture, multiple users can...
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Read Blog PostWhat’s New With the Snowflake Cloud Services Billing Model
During my keynote at Snowflake Summit in June, I mentioned that relentless innovation is at the core of how we approach product development at Snowflake. This innovation comes in the form of new...
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Read Blog PostWhy Technical Certifications Are Critical for Employees and Employers
Because I am a 25+ year veteran of enterprise software professional services and training, coworkers and customers often ask me what the benefits are of obtaining an official technical...
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Read Blog Post3 Trends that Are Transforming the Role of the DBA
The total amount of enterprise data grows exponentially each year, and companies will continue to need database administrators (DBAs) to manage it. Thirty-nine percent of DBAs now handle 50 or...
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Read Blog Post4 Tips on Starting Your Data Monetization Journey
Although every company has the potential to earn revenue from the information it generates, in a recent study of more than 400 companies in 34 countries, only 1 in 12 were monetizing their data to...
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Read Blog PostIn the Cloud, Architecture Matters
Analytic workloads are moving to the cloud, away from on-premises environments, in substantial numbers. According to industry research firm IDC’s latest big data and analytics software forecast...
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Read Blog PostThe Data is In: The 2019 Snowflake Customer Experience Report
We are pleased to share the findings of our latest Customer Experience Report, produced in partnership with Walker and Qualtrics. This is the second year we have fielded the study, and we welcome...
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Read Blog PostHow Snowflake Automates Performance in a Modern Cloud Data Warehouse
Database administrators spend up to 80% of their time performing manual administrative tasks. What if much of that work were automated, so they could instead focus on analytics that empowered the...
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Read Blog PostThree Business Reasons for a Modern Data Pipeline
When you think of technology tools that power a successful business, a data pipeline probably isn’t at the top of your list. But data is one of the most valuable assets of a modern company. Modern...
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Read Blog PostSnowflake Q&A Forum is now on Stack Overflow
These are incredibly exciting times for Snowflake, especially because we have so many passionate users—across different roles like BI, data science, IT, line-of-business, development, and more—who...
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Read Blog PostSupport Multiple Data Modeling Approaches with Snowflake
Since I have joined Snowflake, I have been asked multiple times what data warehouse modeling approach does Snowflake support best. Well, the cool thing is that we support multiple data modeling...
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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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