WA3063 Snowflake Training: Snowflake Cloud Data Platform from the Ground Up Training
This Snowlflake training course introduces students to Snowflake, a fully-managed, terabyte-scale Cloud Data Platform that you can run on any major cloud platform, be it Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud. As an added value, Snowflake enables you to replicate and synchronize your data across the points of deployment on different cloud platforms.
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What is Snowlflake? An Introduction to Snowflake.
Upon completion of this Snowflake training, the students will be prepared to confidently begin to apply their knowledge in practice, solving their specific data processing and analysis problems.
Topics
- Introduction to the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform
- Snowflake's Web UI
- Designing Data Warehouses in Snowflake
- Querying for Insights in Snowflake
- Designing Data Warehouses in Snowflake
- Data Import and Export in Snowflake
Objectives
- The Snowflake Web UI
- Creating and Working with Databases in Snowflake
- Querying Data in Snowflake
- Common Table Expressions (CTEs)
- Window Functions in Snowflake
- Understanding Stored Procedures and UDFs in Snowflake
- SnowSQL Command-Line Interface
- Understanding Snowflake Users and Roles
Audience
The audience for this Snowflake training course, is business analysts, architects, system integrators, software engineers, and technical support staff.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of programming and SQL is a prerequisite for this Snowflake training course.
Snowflake Training Duration
2 days
Outline for Snowflake Training: Snowflake Cloud Data Platform from the Ground Up Training
Chapter 1. Introduction to the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform
- What is Snowflake?
- Certifications
- Snowflake Conceptual Architecture
- Core Underlying Design Considerations
- Core Services and Tools
- Snowflake Editions
- The Standard Edition
- The Enterprise Edition
- The Business Critical Edition
- Virtual Private Snowflake
- Billing: The Cost Components
- Data Storage Segments
- Parts of Snowflake that Incur Compute-related Costs
- Summary
Chapter 2. Snowflake's Web UI
- Web UI (Web Portal)
- The Landing Page
- Snowflake Roles
- The Roles UI
- Databases
- Shares
- Data Marketplace
- The Warehouses UI
- Worksheets
- History
- A History Sample
- Account
- Operational Transparency: Controlling the Usage of Your Account
- Create Network Policy Dialog (under Account > Policies)
- Preview App
- Summary
Chapter 3. Designing Data Warehouses in Snowflake
- What is a Virtual Data Warehouse ?
- The Warehouse-Database Relationship
- Matching Your Needs
- The Auto Suspend/Resume Features
- Multi-cluster Data Warehouses
- The Concept of the Snowflake Compute Credit
- Compute Sizing
- Example of Calculating Monthly Compute Charges (Credits)
- Operations
- Creating a New Warehouse
- Database Objects
- Tables
- Table Storage Types
- Table Constraints
- Search Optimization Service
- Table Data Types
- Data Loading
- Views
- Zero-Copy Cloning Feature
- The Programming Capability
- Continuous Data Protection Lifecycle
- Summary
Chapter 4. Querying for Insights in Snowflake
- Supported SQL Standards
- Ways to Query Data in Snowflake
- Snowsight Experience
- The TOP/LIMIT Syntax
- Comments
- Pagination
- Support for Window Functions
- CTEs (Common Table Expressions)
- Approximation Functions
- Summary
Chapter 5. Designing Data Warehouses in Snowflake
- The Programming Capability
- Returning a Value
- User-defined Functions (UDFs)
- UDF-Related DDL Commands
- The CREATE FUNCTION DDL
- A UDF Example
- Stored Procedures
- DDL Commands Related to Stored Procedures
- JavaScript-based Stored Procedure
- A Stored Procedure Example
- Accessing the Return Value of Stored Procedures
- External Functions
- Summary
Chapter 6. Data Import and Export in Snowflake
- Bringing Data Into Snowflake: the Import Tools
- Data Stages
- Import Process using a Stage
- Example of Using the Put Command
- Example of Using the Copy Into Command for Data Import
- Snowpipe
- Using Snowpipe
- Taking Data out of Snowflake: the Export Tools
- The Export Process
- Data Export Example
- Summary
Lab Exercises
Lab 1 - Signing Up for the Free Trial of Snowflake
Lab 2 - The Snowflake Web UI
Lab 3 - Creating and Working with Databases in Snowflake
Lab 4 - Querying Data in Snowflake
Lab 5 - Common Table Expressions (CTEs)
Lab 6 - Window Functions in Snowflake
Lab 7 - The Time Travel Feature of Snowflake
Lab 8 - Understanding Stored Procedures and UDFs in Snowflake
Lab 9 - SnowSQL Command-Line Interface
Lab 10 - Data Import Using SnowSQL Command-Line Interface
Lab 11 - Understanding Snowflake Users and Roles