Snowflake: The Definitive Guide

by Joyce Kay Avila

Overview

Snowflake's ability to eliminate data silos and run workloads from a single platform creates opportunities to democratize data analytics, allowing users at all levels within an organization to make data-driven decisions. Whether you're an IT professional working in data warehousing or data science, a business analyst or technical manager, or an aspiring data professional wanting to get more hands-on experience with the Snowflake platform, this book is for you.

You'll learn how Snowflake users can build modern integrated data applications and develop new revenue streams based on data. Using hands-on SQL examples, you'll also discover how the Snowflake Data Cloud helps you accelerate data science by avoiding replatforming or migrating data unnecessarily.

You'll be able to:

• Efficiently capture, store, and process large amounts of data at an amazing speed
• Ingest and transform real-time data feeds in both structured and semistructured formats and deliver meaningful data insights within minutes
• Use Snowflake Time Travel and zero-copy cloning to produce a sensible data recovery strategy that balances system resilience with ongoing storage costs
• Securely share data and reduce or eliminate data integration costs by accessing ready-to-query datasets available in the Snowflake Marketplace

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781098103774
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/11/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	468
Sales rank:	892,203
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Joyce Kay Avila has more than 25 years as a business and technology leader. She is a Texas Certified Public Accountant and currently holds one Amazon Web Services certification and one Snowflake certification. She also holds twelve Salesforce certifications, including the Tableau CRM and Einstein Discovery certification along with several Salesforce Architect-level certifications.

Joyce works as the Snowflake Practice Manager at SpringML, a Snowflake partner who helps organizations unlock the power of data-driven insights using Snowflake's unique cloud data platform. Previously, Joyce earned bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and in Accounting Business Administration, a Master's degree of Business Administration, and completed her PhD coursework in Accounting Information Systems.

In support of the Salesforce and Snowflake communities, Joyce produces a running series of how-to videos on her YouTube channel. In 2022, she was selected as one of 48 Snowflake Data Superheroes worldwide.