Snowflake Blog
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Read Blog Post5 Business Needs That Fuel Enterprise 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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Read Blog PostWhat’s New at Summit: Thursday
We hope you had a great day at Summit. Here’s what you need to know about Thursday. Data Drivers award winners The Chris Clouse Project rocked the house at last night’s Snowball event. There was...
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Read Blog PostWhat’s New at Summit: Wednesday
Today was another action-packed day at Summit. Are you ready for Thursday? Plan ahead by viewing the full list of Summit breakout sessions, hands-on labs, and theater sessions via the Summit...
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Read Blog PostWhy the Best Data Security Hinges on Data Sharing
Rather than do everything ourselves, we outsource tasks to experts. This has been the case for millennia. That same pattern continues to emerge with data security. Organizations have spent decades...
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Read Blog PostSnowflake Launches Database Replication and Failover
In today’s competitive global landscape, businesses need their systems to be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. However, internet outages can occur for many reasons, including network...
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Read Blog PostSnowflake Data Pipelines
Businesses work with massive amounts of data today, and in order to analyze all of that data they need a single view into the entire data set. The challenge is that data resides in multiple...
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Read Blog PostSnowflake Materialized Views: A Fast, Zero-Maintenance, Accurate Solution
If you could automatically reduce your network resource load and simultaneously speed up query results, you would, wouldn’t you? In fact, that might be a key focus of your job. Snowflake has you...
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Read Blog PostWhat’s Happening at Snowflake Summit: Tuesday
We hope you enjoyed the first full day of Summit, including keynote presentations from Frank Slootman, Christian Kleinerman, and Steven Levitt. Recap of Frank Slootman’s keynote Frank Slootman,...
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Read Blog PostWhy Snowflake Summit is Much More than a User Conference
I agree, history does repeat itself. I joined Snowflake nearly a year ago, six years after its founding and when the planning for Snowflake Summit had just emerged. Prior to Snowflake, I spent 14...
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Read Blog PostSnowflake Summit 2019 Is About to Kick Off!
Registration is open from 7 a.m.–7 p.m. on each day of Summit. The registration desk is located on the second floor, outside of Basecamp, in the Continental Ballroom. Plan ahead: Design your...
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