Mastering Snowflake Platform
Mastering Snowflake Platform

Author: Pooja Kelgaonkar

Publisher: BPB Publications

Published: 2024-01-12

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 9355519761

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Embark on the data journey with the ultimate guide to Snowflake mastery KEY FEATURES ● Learn about Snowflake cloud-based data architecture and its basics. ● Learn and implement Snowflake’s unified features with use cases. ● Design and deploy robust enterprise data architectures with Snowflake. DESCRIPTION Handling ever evolving data for business needs can get complex. Traditional methods create bulky and costly-to-maintain data systems. Here, Snowflake emerges as a cost-effective solution, catering to both traditional and modern data needs with zero or minimal maintenance costs. This book helps you grasp Snowflake, guiding you to create complete solutions from start to finish. The starting focus covers Snowflake architecture, key features, native loading and unloading capabilities, ANSI SQL support, and processing of diverse data types and objects. The next part utilizes acquired knowledge to look into implementing data security, governance, and collaborations, utilizing Snowflake's features like data sharing and cloning. The final part explores advanced topics, including streams, tasks, performance optimizations, cost efficiencies, and operationalization with automated monitoring. Real-time use cases and reference architectures are provided to assist readers in implementing data warehouse, data lake, and data mesh solutions with Snowflake. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Introduction to Snowflake and its three-layered architecture. ● Understand Snowflake’s native features. ● Understand the different types of data workloads and their architecture designs. ● Implement query and cost performance optimization using Snowflake native services. ● Introduction to Snowflake’s advanced features like dynamic and event tables. ● Snowflake’s capabilities with extended support to implement large language models. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is for data practitioners, data engineers, data architects, or every data enthusiast who is keen on learning Snowflake. It does not need any prior experience, however, it is beneficial to have a basic understanding of cloud computing, data concepts and basic programming skills. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Getting Started with Snowflake 2. Three Layered Architecture 3. Data Types, Data Objects and SQL Commands 4. Data Loading and Unloading 5. Understanding Streams and Tasks 6. Understanding Snowpark 7. Access Control and Managing Users Roles 8. Data Protection and Recovery 9. Snowflake Performance Optimization 10. Understanding Snowflake Costing and Utilizations 11. Implementing Cost Optimizations 12. Data Sharing 13. Data Cloning 14. Understanding Snowsight 15. Programming Connectors and Drivers 16. Workload Patterns with Snowflake 17. Introduction to Snowflake’s Advance Features

14 Fun Facts About Icebergs
14 Fun Facts About Icebergs

Author: Caitlind L. Alexander

Publisher: Learning Island

Published: 2018-11-26

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13:

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Icebergs can be fascinating things. They are fresh water, floating islands of ice. Some of them are big enough to hold 100 football stadiums, or more. They can be a danger to passing ships and wildlife that gets trapped on them. They drift along with the currents, melting as they make their way toward warmer waters, and their slow death. Do you know: Why do icebergs float? What is the underwater part of an iceberg called? How old is the air trapped in some icebergs? What is a growler? How big was the biggest iceberg ever recorded? Find out the answers to these questions and more and amaze your family and friends with these fun facts. Ages 8 and up. All measurements in American and metric. Reading Level: 6.4 Learning Island believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.

Thinking Like an Iceberg
Thinking Like an Iceberg

Author: Olivier Remaud

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2022-06-08

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1509551484

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When we imagine the polar regions, we see a largely lifeless world covered in snow and ice where icebergs drift listlessly through frozen waters, like solitary wanderers of the oceans floating aimlessly in total silence. But nothing could be further from the truth. This book takes us into the fascinating world of icebergs and glaciers to discover what they are really like. Through a series of historical vignettes recalling some of the most tragic and most exhilarating encounters between human beings and these gigantic pieces of matter, and through vivid descriptions of their cycles of birth and death, Olivier Remaud shows that these entities are teeming with many forms of life and that there is a deep continuity between iceberg life and human life, a complex web of reciprocal interconnections that can lead from the deadliest to the most vital. And precisely because there is this continuity, icebergs and glaciers tell us something important about life itself – namely, that it thrives in the most unexpected of places, even where there seems to be no life at all. At a time when we are increasingly aware that the melting of ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice is one of the many disastrous consequences of global warming, this beautiful meditation is a poignant reminder of the interconnectedness of all life and the fragility of the Earth’s ecosystems.

Icy the Iceberg
Icy the Iceberg

Author: Larry Friend

Publisher: Litfire Publishing, LLC

Published: 2017-04

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781640450189

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Follow ICY on his incredible journey... Beginning his life as a sparkling snowflake. Finding himself squeezed for hundreds of years beneath tons of snow. Emerging as a beautiful, blue, floating iceberg. Making friends with all kinds of creatures in his amazing adventure... You will fall in love with ICY the ICEBERG

Snowflake: The Definitive Guide
Snowflake: The Definitive Guide

Author: Joyce Kay Avila

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2022-08-11

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1098103777

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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

Practical Lakehouse Architecture
Practical Lakehouse Architecture

Author: Gaurav Ashok Thalpati

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2024-07-24

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1098152980

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This concise yet comprehensive guide explains how to adopt a data lakehouse architecture to implement modern data platforms. It reviews the design considerations, challenges, and best practices for implementing a lakehouse and provides key insights into the ways that using a lakehouse can impact your data platform, from managing structured and unstructured data and supporting BI and AI/ML use cases to enabling more rigorous data governance and security measures. Practical Lakehouse Architecture shows you how to: Understand key lakehouse concepts and features like transaction support, time travel, and schema evolution Understand the differences between traditional and lakehouse data architectures Differentiate between various file formats and table formats Design lakehouse architecture layers for storage, compute, metadata management, and data consumption Implement data governance and data security within the platform Evaluate technologies and decide on the best technology stack to implement the lakehouse for your use case Make critical design decisions and address practical challenges to build a future-ready data platform Start your lakehouse implementation journey and migrate data from existing systems to the lakehouse

Larryboy and the Sinister Snow Day
Larryboy and the Sinister Snow Day

Author: Sean Gaffney

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0310705614

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Once again Larryboy saves the day and shows the Veggie kids in Bumblyburg that when they stop learning, they stop growing.

Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide
Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide

Author: Tomer Shiran

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2024-05-02

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1098148592

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Traditional data architecture patterns are severely limited. To use these patterns, you have to ETL data into each tool—a cost-prohibitive process for making warehouse features available to all of your data. The lack of flexibility with these patterns requires you to lock into a set of priority tools and formats, which creates data silos and data drift. This practical book shows you a better way. Apache Iceberg provides the capabilities, performance, scalability, and savings that fulfill the promise of an open data lakehouse. By following the lessons in this book, you'll be able to achieve interactive, batch, machine learning, and streaming analytics with this high-performance open source format. Authors Tomer Shiran, Jason Hughes, and Alex Merced from Dremio show you how to get started with Iceberg. With this book, you'll learn: The architecture of Apache Iceberg tables What happens under the hood when you perform operations on Iceberg tables How to further optimize Iceberg tables for maximum performance How to use Iceberg with popular data engines such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Dremio Discover why Apache Iceberg is a foundational technology for implementing an open data lakehouse.

A Snowflake's Dance
A Snowflake's Dance

Author: Kathleen McLeod

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2023-12-19

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 1039163610

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Discover a fresh perspective on snow with Kathleen McLeod’s A Snowflake’s Dance. This mesmerizing journey captures the life cycle of Snowflake as it navigates through Canada’s Eastern Arctic, evolving through seasons from a crystalline snowflake to a snowfield, then a glacier, an iceberg, and finally returning to its original form. Young readers will meet the Inuit, fascinating Arctic creatures, and the trio of narrators: Landscape, Sea, and Sky. Each character contributes to painting a breathtaking picture of the Arctic’s ecosystem and its interconnectedness with the rest of the world. As visually appealing as it is informative, the book is enriched with vibrant watercolour illustrations. A Snowflake’s Dance is an invaluable resource for educators. The book easily integrates into school curriculums as it facilitates learning about the seasons, the Arctic environment, northern wildlife, snow formation, and glaciers. It provides an engaging platform for children to explore the marvels of natural science and geography. Prepare to be whisked away on an unforgettable adventure that encapsulates the magic and mystery of the Arctic. A Snowflake’s Dance is more than just a book—it’s a gateway to understanding the beauty, complexity, and significance of our natural world.

Winter US Edition
Winter US Edition

Author: Adam Gopnik

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 2011-08-24

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1770890459

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The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter -- the season, the space, the cycle. Gopnik takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists, and thinkers, who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. Here we learn how a poem by William Cowper heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to existential questions of God and our place in the world; how the race to the poles marks the human drive to imprint meaning on a blank space. Gopnik’s kaleidoscopic work ends in the present day, when he traverses the underground city in Montreal, pondering the future of Northern culture. A stunningly beautiful meditation buoyed by Gopnik’s trademark gentle wit, Winter is at once an enchanting homage to an idea of a season and a captivating journey through the modern imagination. This deluxe 50th anniversary edition includes full-colour images printed on two 8-page inserts.