Get an introduction to Snowflake, a cloud-based data platform designed to power your data-driven applications and analytics.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Getting started
- Understanding data and the importance of databases
- What is Snowflake and how does it work?
- Snowflake: Unique selling points for businesses
- Tackling data capture challenges
- Data loading and unloading with Snowflake
- Supported data sources in Snowflake
- Data types and formats in Snowflake
- Tools for loading data into Snowflake
- Optimal frequency for loading data into Snowflake
- Ensuring security on the Snowflake platform
- Implementing data governance on the Snowflake platform
- Querying your data
- Data management in Snowflake
- Visualizing your data with Snowsight
- Understanding workloads in Snowflake
- The power of data sharing
- The Snowflake pricing model
- Navigating data science workloads in Snowflake
- Data engineering workloads with Snowflake
- A look into the data marketplace
- How data applications work with Snowflake
- Your next steps with Snowflake
Taught by
Tim Ngwena