Snowflake Blog
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Read ArticleBreaking Free from Complexity Saves Time and Money
In traditional data warehousing, complexity comes in various forms, including time and labor-intensive tasks like creating clusters. Procuring a platform then managing and scaling that platform...
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Read ArticlePreparing to Power the Data Economy
It’s been a very busy and rewarding year for Snowflake. Demand for the data warehouse built for the cloud has exceeded our most optimistic expectations. Our customers love Snowflake and we...
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Read ArticleDesigning a Modern Big Data Streaming Architecture at Scale (Part One)
Back in September of 2016, I wrote a series of blog posts discussing how to design a big data stream ingestion architecture using Snowflake. Two years ago, providing an alternative to dumping data...
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Read ArticleBuilding Enterprise Azure Data & Analytics Solutions Around Snowflake (Part 1)
With Snowflake’s recent announcement of General Availability (GA) on Azure, this is a good opportunity to share details about a project we’re working on here at Slalom. We’re building an...
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Read ArticleContinuous Data Replication into Snowflake with Oracle GoldenGate
Continuous flow, streaming, near real-time and data replication. These are all terms used to identify a business’s need for quick access to data. It’s a common request, especially if the requestor...
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Read ArticleHow a Real-time Risk Management Portal will Impact Your Business
How do you create a powerful risk management portal to consolidate siloed structured, and semi-structured data into a single, flexible source of real-time risk information for interactive...
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Read ArticleHow We Built Snowflake on Azure
Today, we announced the general availability of Snowflake on Azure. As a part of the engineering team that built Snowflake on Azure, I’m especially excited to unveil what we’ve been working on....
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Read ArticleHonoring Partners at the Annual Snowflake Partner Summit
Fall is the time of year when we host our annual Snowflake Partner Summit. Bringing together representatives from Snowflake and our extensive partner ecosystem, the Snowflake Partner Summit...
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Read ArticleSeamlessly Share Data with More Users
To support our ongoing effort to transform and improve the user experience, Snowflake has released two new features for Data Sharing: A new UI and Reader Accounts. With the new UI, users can...
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Read ArticleGet Ready for Snowflake Data Sharing Reader Accounts
In 2017, we launched Snowflake Data Sharing, aka The Data Sharehouse, to help organizations quickly share governed and secure data in real time. What makes Snowflake Data Sharing possible is the...
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Read ArticleIs Data Secure When Stored in the Cloud?
A growing number of data-driven companies are making the switch to cloud data warehouses. The benefits of doing so are obvious: flexible capacity scaling, fewer administrative headaches and better...
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Read ArticleWorksheets Has Been Refreshed and Offers an Improved User Experience
We’ve been working diligently on product updates to make the lives of DBAs, Data analysts and BI professionals easier. Worksheets, Snowflake’s SQL editing tool, has been completely redesigned and...
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Read ArticleMachine Learning and Data Warehousing
Three years ago, I predicted that data science and machine learning (ML) would converge with data warehousing, and it would happen in the cloud. The typical reaction was short and sweet: Why would...
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Read ArticleThe Best Way to Gauge Performance of a Cloud Data Warehouse
Raise your hand if you’re a CTO or platform architect who decided to choose a particular data analytics or cloud data warehouse solution based solely on a performance benchmark report marketed by...
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Read ArticleBlockchain: The Next Big Thing in Healthcare?
Do you ever feel frustrated when you go to a new doctor or visit a specialist and they ask you to fill out a new medical history form? Why don’t they already have your medical history on file?...
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Read ArticleGet Started Faster with Snowflake Partner Connect
Ending the struggle for data starts with getting to your data faster. Snowflake already streamlines the path to get up and running with a simple sign-up process via our website. With the...
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Read Article5 Reasons to Love Snowflake’s Architecture for Your Data Warehouse
You may ask, “So, how does Snowflake do data warehousing differently than any other solution available? Glad you asked. The answer is, architecture. This blog details five characteristics about...
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Read ArticleDon’t Ignore ACID-Compliant Data Processing in the Cloud
When moving workloads to the cloud, you should expect high performance and robust security. You should also have high expectations for scalability, workload concurrency, elasticity, ease-of-use,...
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Read ArticleSnowflake Cyclists Gear up to Raise Money for Parkinson’s UK
An intrepid team of Snowflake cyclists is about to embark on a gruelling challenge to cycle from London to Paris, marking a new partnership with Parkinson’s UK. Nineteen members of the Snowflake...
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Read ArticleHow to Easily Load and Query XML Data with Snowflake (Part 2)
With this blog, we conclude our two-part series on how to easily query XML with Snowflake SQL. Picking up where we left off with Part 1, with the XML data loaded, you can query the data in a fully...
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