Category: Snowflake

If you’ve been working with data for several years like I have – mostly using the SQL language – then I have a term for you that other languages, like JavaScript or Python, have had for a few years. The term is “memoizable” and it means, in a nutshell, to remember. A memoizable function caches…… Continue reading The Power of Memoizable Functions in Snowflake

When working with one of the many modern computer languages that use libraries, one of the many things to be aware of – as a developer – is the version of the libraries available for your usage. Since there are multiple languages in Snowflake that use libraries, let’s go over how to check out the…… Continue reading Checking Out The Snowflake Packages

This week, I want to talk about something we’ve all done at least once – especially before our first cup of coffee in the morning. Yes, that’s right – dropping tables and databases. So we have our table from last time still existing in our database: We’re trying to get rid of a table from…… Continue reading When you have a really bad morning in Snowflake

When working with data, I usually have an idea of what type of data I will push into a field. Sometimes, for whatever reason, it is decided to change the type of data allowed in the field. Today, I want to show how that’s done in Snowflake. I will start out working with a simple…… Continue reading How to Efficiently Change Data Types in Snowflake for Optimal Performance

In our last post, we talked about some of my favorite queries I use in Snowflake to see various items of interest – such as finding the worst-performing queries. For today’s post, though, I want to talk about performance tuning. Yes, you read that right. We’re going to use query history to do some fun…… Continue reading Even more Great Queries Using Query History

Now that we know so much about getting data from Snowflake using the query history, we should be able to get all kinds of data that will be helpful for us. In the next few queries, I want to provide some queries I use that should make your Snowflake usage a bit more useful. The…… Continue reading Some Great Queries Using the Query History

In previous posts, we have discussed differing ways of getting at the query history. In those posts, we discussed getting that data by the session or by a specific user. Today, I want to examine another way of getting to that data. This new way – is by warehouse. I have tried to set up…… Continue reading Even more Query History in Snowflake

Yes, I know. The name of today’s post is certainly clickbait. But it’s true! There are so many things you can do in Snowflake that may – or may not – be possible in SQL Server, at least not without several tricks and possibly low-level querying. So, let’s start shall we? What did I run?…… Continue reading Cool Items in Snowflake that Aren’t in SQL Server