If you choose to use Snowflake along with Azure for your data platform, you will have to make choices on how to load the data. Landing processed data into your data lake on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS) is the first step that I recommend in most environments. I like this pattern because then… Continue Reading
This post is to provide some tips and references for anyone studying for the SnowPro certification.
In this tutorial we cover some basic but realistic examples of loading from CSV or Parquet files. The source data is in partitioned folders following a pattern of puYear=#### and puMonth=##, but we do not use the partition columns until the last example.
Snowflake, like similar analytic databases, has a fast way to load data from files. The COPY command can quickly read files and append the records to a table. It does this by reading from an external stage which points to a cloud storage location. This currently supports Azure Storage, Amazon S3, and Google Cloud Storage.… Continue Reading
