Blockchain: The Next Big Thing in Healthcare?
Do you ever feel frustrated when you go to a new doctor or visit a…
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The Data Sharehouse™ brings forth a new market
When I mention data sharing to customers, they often say “really”? From that moment forward,…
Get Started Faster with Snowflake Partner Connect
Ending the struggle for data starts with getting to your data faster. Snowflake already streamlines…
Market | Technology
5 Reasons to Love Snowflake’s Architecture for Your Data Warehouse
You may ask, “So, how does Snowflake do data warehousing differently than any other solution…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
Don’t Ignore ACID-Compliant Data Processing in the Cloud
When moving workloads to the cloud, you should expect high performance and robust security. You…
Engineering
Snowflake Cyclists Gear up to Raise Money for Parkinson’s UK
An intrepid team of Snowflake cyclists is about to embark on a gruelling challenge to…
About Snowflake
How to Easily Load and Query XML Data with Snowflake (Part 2)
With this blog, we conclude our two-part series on how to easily query XML with…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
Providing Customer Choice – Snowflake on Azure
In 2012, Benoit, Thierry, and Marcin, our founders, had an insight. They realized the public…
About Snowflake
How to Get Started with Snowflake on Azure
Snowflake is now available on Microsoft Azure for preview in the East US 2 region.…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
Is SaaS Data Analytics Right for You?
Your company needs a data analytics platform. Or, you’re considering alternatives to your current platform.…
Market | Technology
How to Use AWS Glue with Snowflake
The process of extraction, transformation and load (ETL) is central to any data warehousing initiative.…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
How the Modern Data Warehouse Helps Ease the Burden of GDPR
While many activities driving an organization’s GDPR compliance are in the organization’s own hands, its…
About Snowflake | Market | Technology
How to Make Data Protection and High Availability for Analytics Fast and Easy
When moving enterprise data warehouse analytic workloads to the cloud, it’s important to consider data…
Engineering | Technology
Connecting a Jupyter Notebook to Snowflake via Spark (Part 4)
In the third part of this series, we learned how to connect Sagemaker to Snowflake…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
Snowflake Europe: What a Difference a Year Makes
Since Snowflake Computing first opened its doors in London a year ago, we’ve seen unprecedented…
About Snowflake | Market
How to Load terabytes into Snowflake – Speeds, Feeds and Techniques
We often get these questions from customers facing an initial data load into Snowflake or,…
Engineering | Technology | Using Snowflake
Connecting a Jupyter Notebook to Snowflake through Python (Part 3)
In part two of this four-part series, we learned how to create a Sagemaker Notebook…
Engineering | Technology | Using Snowflake
Why You Need a Cloud Data Warehouse
Are you new to the concepts of data warehousing? Do you want to know how…
Market | Product Corner
How FoundationDB Powers Snowflake Metadata Forward
FoundationDB is now open source. After years of in-house development, this distributed, scalable and transactional…
Engineering | Technology | Using Snowflake
Top 9 Best Practices for Data Warehouse Development
When planning for a modern cloud data warehousing development project, having some form or outline around understanding…
Market | Technology
Building a Sagemaker Instance from Scratch (Part 2)
In part one of this four-part Snowflake/Sagemaker series, I outlined the benefits of machine learning…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
How Usage-Based Pricing Delivers a Budget-Friendly Cloud Data Warehouse
When you have budgets and business plans you need to stick to, you want clear…
Product Corner | Using Snowflake
The Dream Data Warehouse Development Environment
Earlier this month, Snowflake’s Customer Enablement Team was assigned an email from one of our…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
Boost Your Analytics with Machine Learning and Advanced Data Preparation
Enterprises can now harness the power of Apache Spark to quickly and easily prepare data…
Market | Using Snowflake
Accelerate Your Way to a Modern Cloud Analytics Platform
Many times, I see clients who have no current cloud footprint use the power of…
About Cloud Data | Market
Quickstart Guide for Sagemaker + Snowflake (Part One)
Machine Learning (ML) and predictive analytics are quickly becoming irreplaceable tools for small startups and…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
How to Easily Load XML with SQL (Part 1)
With this two-part blog, we review how to load XML data into Snowflake and query…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
Gartner Positions Snowflake as a Challenger in Magic Quadrant
The number of different metrics that enterprise SaaS providers must measure themselves against change and…
Featured | Market
Snowflake expands EU footprint with Dublin deployment
Snowflake continues the global expansion of its built-for-the-cloud data warehouse with its second AWS deployment…
About Snowflake | Using Snowflake
Global Snowflake: Loading Data into Snowflake from Azure Blob Storage
Snowflake is available in a number of AWS regions as we continue to expand our…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
Disruption as a Stepping Stone
It’s one thing to disrupt an entire industry with a revolutionary technology or business model.…
About Snowflake
Modern Data Sharing: The Opportunities Are Endless
Data sharing between organizations for commercial purposes has been around for over 100 years. But…
Engineering | Industry | Using Snowflake
Snowflake’s Remediation Plans for the Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities
Meltdown Meltdown is a hardware vulnerability that primarily affects Intel x86 processors. An attacker must…
Engineering | Security
Dresner ADI Report: Snowflake Recommended by 100% of Customer Survey Respondents
Snowflake has ranked highly among the data warehouse vendors in the quadrants of the 2018…
Market | Product Corner
Data is Only Transformative with Transformative Technology
At the recent AWS re:Invent show in Las Vegas, The Cube host, Lisa Martin, had…
Market | Technology
New Snowflake Features Released in H2’17
Looking back at the first half of this year, the main theme at Snowflake has…
Engineering | Technology
Your First Steps with Snowpipe
Please note that Snowpipe is in public preview in the US West Region of AWS.…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
Snowpipe: Serverless Loading for Streaming Data
Today’s organizations struggle to load, integrate and analyze the sources of streaming data they rely…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
How Snowpipe Streamlines Your Continuous Data Loading and Your Business
For anyone who harbors a love-hate relationship with data loading, it’s time to tip the…
Market | Product Corner
PrivateLink for Snowflake: No Internet Required
Improve Security and Simplify Connectivity with PrivateLink for Snowflake AWS recently announced PrivateLink, the newest…
Engineering | Security
5 Must-Have Features for High Concurrency Environments
Whether you’re new to cloud data warehousing or comparing multiple cloud data warehouse technologies, it’s…
Market | Technology
Deliveroo Delivers with Real-time Data
In a field of struggling food delivery startups, one notable success story has emerged from…
Customers | Market | Using Snowflake
Snowflake’s Seattle Office Welcomes New Engineering Talent
In early October, Snowflake announced the expansion of its Seattle office and welcomed two new…
Engineering | Working at Snowflake
Let History Halve Your Next Data Analytics Purchase
If you’re lucky, you’ll spend just six to 12 months considering and buying your next…
About Cloud Data | Industry | Technology
Financial Services: Welcome to Virtual Private Snowflake
Correct, consistent data is the lifeblood of the financial services industry. If your data is…
Industry | Product Corner | Using Snowflake
The Virtual Private Snowflake Story
Snowflake was built as a secure, multi-tenant SaaS data warehouse. We’ve been offering a multi-tenant…
About Snowflake | Security | Technology
TPC-DS at 100TB and 10TB Scale Now Available in Snowflake’s Samples
We are happy to announce that a full 100 TB version of TPC-DS data, along…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
Rethink What You Know About Creating a Data Lake for JSON
Over the last 10 years, the notion has been that to quickly and cost-effectively gain…
Industry | Using Snowflake
New Snowflake features released in Q2’17
It has been an incredible few months at Snowflake. Along with the introduction of self-service…
Engineering | Product Corner | Using Snowflake
How to Convert JSON to SQL
One of the key reasons I joined Snowflake is its built-in support to load and…
Engineering | Technology
3 Ways a Data Sharehouse™ Can Catapult Your Data-Driven Initiatives
How would your organization benefit from effortlessly sharing limitless amounts of data with business partners…
Industry | Using Snowflake
What makes Snowflake a data warehouse?
One of the most common questions I get when speaking to people about Snowflake is:…
About Snowflake
The Data Sharehouse™ brings forth a new market
When I mention data sharing to customers, they often say “really”? From that moment forward,…
Featured
Understanding Your Snowflake Utilization: Part 3 – Query Profiling
This article is the third in a three-part series to help you utilize the functionality…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
Data Encryption with Customer-Managed Keys
The security of customer data is Snowflake’s first priority. All customer data is encrypted using…
Engineering | Security
New Snowflake features released in Q1’17
We recently celebrated an important milestone in reaching 500+ customers since Snowflake became generally available in…
Product Corner | Technology | Using Snowflake
Snowflake and Spark, Part 2: Pushing Spark Query Processing to Snowflake
Welcome to the second post in our 2-part series describing Snowflake’s integration with Spark. In…
Engineering
Snowflake establishes UK foothold with Thibaut Ceyrolle as VP of Sales
Snowflake’s journey to streamline access to data-driven insight in the cloud age continues to capture…
About Snowflake | Market
Virtual Warehouse Billing Made Smarter
One of our most important commitments to our users is reducing/eliminating the management and tuning…
Product Corner | Technology | Using Snowflake
Snowflake and Spark, Part 1: Why Spark?
This is the first post in a 2-part series describing Snowflake’s integration with Spark. In…
Engineering
Understanding Your Snowflake Utilization, Part 2: Storage Profiling
This article is the second in a three-part series to help you use Snowflake’s Information Schema…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
Growing Snowflake to help you end your struggle for data
In business, your impact directly correlates with the problems you strive to solve. Snowflake’s founders…
About Snowflake | Featured
Understanding Your Snowflake Utilization, Part 1: Warehouse Profiling
This is the first in a series of follow-up posts to Kent Graziano’s earlier post, Using…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
Snowflake: Seriously Serious About Security
How Serious Are We About Security? Extremely. No self-respecting security team is ever satisfied with…
Security
RI (Referential Integrity) Constraints: 3 Reasons to Include Them in Your Data Warehouse
Over the years, I have had numerous conversations about the value of having referential integrity…
Technology
Snowflake Vision Emerges as Industry Benchmark
Technology research and analysis firm Gigaom has ranked Snowflake as the #1 cloud data warehouse…
About Cloud Data | Market
Migrating to the Cloud? Why you should start with your EDW
Many organizations we engage with are seriously considering transforming their business and moving some (or…
About Cloud Data | Market
Looking Back at 2016 Predictions
Last December, I made some predictions for 2016. As we approach the end of the…
About Cloud Data | About Snowflake | Featured | Market
The True Value of Cloud Data Storage Continues to Emerge
We’re in interesting times. Like most significant trends, the data-driven economy revealed a powerful approach…
About Cloud Data | About Snowflake | Featured | Market
Using the Snowflake Information Schema
Like any good database, Snowflake has a data dictionary that we expose to users. We…
Engineering | Technology | Using Snowflake
Challenges and New Opportunities in Data Analytics
Fall is conference season in the industry, and this fall there has been no shortage…
About Cloud Data | Featured | Market
The most powerful and easy-to-use data warehouse is now the most affordable
When I joined Snowflake nearly three years ago, I knew the seasoned engineers who envisioned…
About Cloud Data | About Snowflake | Market
Are all databases in the cloud, built for the cloud?
“Crap on-premises, move it to the cloud; it is still crap, just in the cloud”…
Market
Tech Tip: Quick Start for Getting Your First Data into Snowflake
If you are like me and fairly new to this whole cloud thing, then one…
Engineering | Product Corner
Part II: Designing Big Data Stream Ingestion Architectures Using Snowflake
In PART I of this blog post, we discussed some of the architectural decisions for…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
Is My Data Safe in the Cloud?
This post comes to us from a guest blogger, Robert Lockard. Robert is an Oracle…
Security
Cloud Analytics in a City Near You: More Learnings and a City Tour Sneak Peak
Last week we discussed a theme that we saw in the Cloud Analytics Symposiums that…
Market
Part I: Designing Big Data Stream Ingestion Architectures Using Snowflake
This post highlights some of Snowflake’s advanced functionality and pinpoints key architectural decisions that might be…
Engineering | Using Snowflake
Cloud Analytics: Sharing Information, Insights and Innovations
While it’s been a busy summer here at Snowflake, we are now picking up even…
About Cloud Data | Market
Power BI Enables Connectivity to Snowflake
Guest post by Miguel Llopis, Senior Program Manager for Power BI at Microsoft. This post…
Product Corner | Using Snowflake
Saving Time & Space: Simplifying DevOps with Fast Cloning
As I have written before, I think our fast cloning feature is pretty cool. Not…
Engineering | Product Corner | Technology
Encryption Everywhere
Data encryption, while vital, has not traditionally been within reach of all organizations primarily due…
Market | Security
Enabling Diverse Analytics on MongoDB Data
The recent MongoDB World conference in New York was a testament to the rapid growth…
Customers | Market
SnowSQL Part II: Interactivity
In our previous blog, we introduced you to SnowSQL – Snowflake’s new modern command line…
Engineering
Mobile customer experience matters
Customers are not only interacting with your app, they are also using multiple social networks…
Customers
SnowSQL Part I: Introducing SnowSQL – a modern command line tool built for the cloud
What & Why Starting this month, we have introduced a new modern command line tool…
Engineering
Happy Tweet, Sad Tweet – Building a Naive Bayes Classifier in SQL
We love to talk about how Snowflake is built and what makes Snowflake stand out…
Engineering
Empowering Data Driven Businesses via Scalable Delivery
The accessibility of data has changed the way that businesses are run. Data has become…
Market | Using Snowflake
Automatic Query Optimization. No Tuning!
Hopefully you had a chance to read all our previous top 10 posts. We now…
Product Corner | Technology
Automatic Encryption of Data
Hopefully you had a chance to read our previous top 10 posts. As promised, we…
Security | Technology
Support for Multiple Workloads
Hopefully you had a chance to read our previous top 10 posts. As promised, we…
Engineering | Product Corner | Technology
Automatic Concurrency Scaling in Snowflake – Another Way the Cloud Changes the Game
The challenge with concurrency Today we take a major step forward by extending our elastic…
Engineering | Technology
Elasticity & Separation of Compute and Storage
Hopefully you had a chance to read our previous top 10 posts. As promised, we…
Engineering | Technology
End-to-End Encryption in the Snowflake Data Warehouse
By Martin Hentschel and Peter Povinec. Protecting customer data is one of the highest priorities…
Engineering | Security
Making Data Warehousing Easy
Legacy Problems Organizations with legacy on-premise data warehouses spend a lot of time and money…
Customers | Security
ANSI SQL with Analytic Functions
Hopefully you had a chance to read our previous top 10 posts. As promised, we…
Engineering | Product Corner | Technology
SaaS Data Analytics and the Enterprise Cloud Acceleration
When we launched Snowflake back in 2014, I remember how exciting it was to see…
Market
JSON Support with Snowflake
Hopefully you had a chance to read our previous top 10 posts. As promised, we…
Engineering | Technology
To SQL or to noSQL: Is that the Right Question?
Spending time this week at the Strata Hadoop conference in San Jose, it’s hard to…
Customers | Market
Snowflake Fast Clone
Hopefully you had a chance to read our previous posts: Query Results Sets available in…
Product Corner | Technology
Are Data Security Breaches Accelerating the Shift to the Cloud?
There is an old saying that there are two things certain in life: death and…
Security
Data Vault Modeling and Snowflake
Since I have joined Snowflake, I have been asked multiple times what data warehouse modeling…
Engineering | Technology | Using Snowflake
Undrop a Table, Database or Schema
Hopefully you had a chance to read our previous posts #10, Query Results Sets available…
Product Corner | Technology | Using Snowflake
Connect to Snowflake with JDBC
Thank you for reading our previous post #10 Query Result Sets available to users via…
Engineering | Product Corner | Technology
Snowflake Query Result Sets Available to Users via History
As promised in the previous post from Kent Graziano, here is a deeper dive into…
Technology | Using Snowflake
Top 10 Cool Things I Like About Snowflake
I have now been with Snowflake Computing for a little over two months (my how…
Product Corner | Technology | Using Snowflake
Doubledown and Solving Data Pipeline Dilemmas
It’s an accepted fact that for data users, far too much of their time is…
Customers
Customizing Oracle Sql Developer Data Modeler (SDDM) to Support Snowflake VARIANT
On a recent customer call, the data architects were asking if Snowflake provided a data…
Engineering | Technology
Part II: Making Schema-on-Read a Reality
In the first article of this series, I discussed the Snowflake data type VARIANT, showed…
Engineering | Technology
Part I: Making Schema-on-Read a Reality
(Note: This the the first in a two-part series discussing how we handle semi-structured data…
Engineering | Technology
Announcing the Native Python Connector for Snowflake
Additional thanks to co-writers Greg Rahn, Product Management and Shige Takeda, Engineering. A key priority…
Engineering | Technology
What’s Ahead: Predictions for 2016
Last year, I made some predictions about how the cloud and data would change the…
Market
Breaking the Dev, Test, Deployment, Dollars Cycle
When I worked at VMware, one of the things customers loved was the ability to…
Technology
Unsafe Harbor? Data Privacy and Security Post Safe Harbor
On October 6th, the European Court of Justice declared the Safe Harbor structure to be…
Market | Security
Integrating the Snowflake Data Warehouse with R via dplyr
While SQL has been the most popular query language for analyzing small, mid-size, and ‘big’…
Engineering | Technology
Snowflake Challenge: Concurrent Load and Query
One of the oldest challenges in data warehousing is getting data into the data warehouse…
Snowflake Challenge
Introducing the Snowflake Data Warehouse Challenge
When we founded Snowflake, our goal wasn’t just to make a data warehouse that was…
Market | Technology
Encryption Key Management in Snowflake
Data encryption is one of the pillars of service offerings in the cloud. Customers demand,…
Engineering | Security | Technology
The Role of IT in the Cloud Era
My first job was as an engineer helping design hardware for “big iron” enterprise servers,…
Market
Solution as a Service
SaaS stands for “Software as a Service” and it describes the modern, cloud-based delivery of…
Market
Data Lake or Data Swamp?
I’ve been in many conversations about using a “data lake” as a new component in…
Market
AWS CloudHSM in High-Availability Mode
Security of customer data is critically important at Snowflake, and so is availability of our…
Engineering | Security | Technology
Betting Big on the Cloud
I remember the first time that someone asked me about cloud computing. I was attending…
Market
KIXEYE and Gaming Analytics on Snowflake
KIXEYE is a Snowflake customer who demonstrates how our customers are rethinking what technology they…
Customers
Using AWS CloudHSM in our Database Security Infrastructure
Security of customer data is critically important at Snowflake. We use sophisticated technologies to ensure…
Engineering | Security | Technology
Data-Driven Decisions in the Cloud Era
One of the fascinating changes I have seen during my career is how data analysis…
Market
Database Fun — as a Service!
When talking about Snowflake, we typically focus on the amazing capabilities that Cloud and the…
Engineering | Working at Snowflake
The Data Warehouse is Dead — Long Live the Data Warehouse!
After a number of stories about his illness and death had appeared in the press,…
Market
Reflections on RSA Conference 2015
The RSA security conferences often have central themes that capture the security zeitgeist for the…
Market | Security | Technology
All Your Data, All Together
It’s great to have a lot of diverse data sources. However, that data doesn’t do…
Technology
Snowflake at Strata 2015
We’re still catching our breath after a packed time at the Strata + Hadoop World…
Market
What to Watch: Predictions for 2015
If you had predicted 15 years ago that databases and data platforms would today be…
Market
Snowflake at Amazon re:Invent 2014
Last week Snowflake was at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, which…
Market
Behind the Snowflake Name
One of the questions that we get the most is, “Why did you decide to…
| Working at Snowflake
From Our Founders
In an industry where change is the standard currency, it’s remarkable how little progress data…
Technology
Reinventing the Data Warehouse
I’ve been involved with technology most of my life, and I’ve found that there are…
Market | Technology
From Zero to Data Warehouse
It’s amazing what can happen when you have the courage and ability to start over.…
| Working at Snowflake
CEO Message
I joined Snowflake Computing because I love being a part of a world-class team that…
Market