If you operate Snowflake for you organization, regardless of scale, this track is for you. Attend these sessions to gain a deeper understanding of Snowflake’s architecture, security, and partner integrations. In addition, you’ll get a handle on cost, user, and usage management. Learn how to be more efficient and enable your organization to be more data driven.
Data Lake Evolution
Data Lake Evolution Sessions
Connecting Securely to Snowflake from Anywhere
Join Snowflake’s customer and product strategy team to review a series of customer security reference architectures, including elements such as proxies, firewalls, AWS PrivateLink integration, and others. You’ll learn why and how these organizations chose their architectures and the best practices they deployed.
SPEAKER
Jonathan Sander
Security Field CTO, Snowflake
Discover Insights from Your Snowflake Usage Data
A Snowflake customer success expert will showcase the insights available by tracking usage and performance data inside your Snowflake account. Attend this session to learn how to capitalize on your Snowflake usage, track historical trends, and encourage Snowflake adoption within your organization.
SPEAKER
Shobha Joshi
Senior Customer Success Manager, Snowflake
Elasticity, Concurrency, & Cost Control in Snowflake
Join Snowflake’s product management and support teams to learn about Snowflake’s unique approach to auto-scaling concurrent workloads via multi-cluster warehouses. You’ll also learn how to manage and control compute costs and leverage Snowflake’s account usage to better understand and monitor your usage. In this session, you’ll also learn how to identify if your warehouse is under load, and detect bottlenecks and the cause of job queues.
SPEAKER
Alireza Atai
Sr. Product Manager, Snowflake
David Hoeffer
Lead Customer Technical Support Engineer, Snowflake
Encryption Key Management and RBAC in Snowflake
Join us for a deep dive into security design considerations. We’ll explain Snowflake’s encryption key hierarchy, including key rotation, rekeying, and the use of hardware security modules (HSMs). We’ll also discuss role-based access control (RBAC).
SPEAKERS
Jacob Salassi
Cloud Security Architect, Snowflake
Martin Hentschel
Software Engineer, Snowflake
Getting Started With Snowflake - The Architecture
Learn about Snowflake’s cloud-built, multi-cluster, shared data architecture, how it works and how it’s unique and different for data warehouses in the cloud, especially for handling structured and semi-structured data such as JSON. Attend this session, and you’ll also learn the basics of creating a new virtual warehouse for isolating working workloads.
SPEAKER
Michael Nixon
Senior Director Product Marketing, Snowflake
How to Design Your Own Snowflake Wiki
Snowflake’s Customer Success team will walk through the creation of your own Snowflake wiki as an index of resources. Your own Snowflake wiki will help new Snowflake users in your organization to more quickly understand Snowflake with relevant best practices, how-to articles, and other information specific to your organization.
SPEAKER
David Vaghari
Enterprise Customer Success Manager, Snowflake
Introduction to Snowflake Best Practices - Part 1
One of the most common questions customers ask when they start with Snowflake is “What are Snowflake’s best practices?” Attend this session to get recommendations for how to apply the concepts in your environment. You’ll learn about managing virtual warehouses and sizing and aligning single and multi-cluster warehouses to workloads. In addition, you’ll get insight into managing and monitoring compute and storage costs. And lastly, you’ll learn how to track and attribute costs to business units for chargebacks.
SPEAKER
Michael Rainey
Sr. Solutions Architect, Snowflake
Michael Walton
Solutions Architect, Snowflake
Darren Gardner
Solutions Architect, Snowflake
Introduction to Snowflake Best Practices - Part 2
Part Two of the Introduction to Snowflake Best Practices session covers the trade-offs of having a single Snowflake account versus multiple Snowflake accounts. You’ll also learn about network security policies using whitelisting and blacklisting policies to govern network access. In addition, you’ll get a solid understanding of user authentication, specifically single/multi-factor and federated user authentication considerations. And finally, you’ll understand role management using system and custom roles for access control.
SPEAKER
Michael Rainey
Sr. Solutions Architect, Snowflake
Danny Bryant
Sr. Solutions Architect, Snowflake
Tim Salch
Technical Account Manager, Snowflake
Managing Multiple Snowflake Accounts
Whether for supporting multiple BUs, multiple environments, or multiple reasons, Snowflake customers can now create and manage multiple accounts easily. Come take a deep dive into how to manage your Accounts with the new Organization capabilities.
SPEAKERS
Chris Child
Product Manager, Snowflake
Amy Kaulius
Sales Engineer, Snowflake
Managing Network Policies for Access
Join this session to learn how to set up network policies and see a demo of configuring a network policy in your own Snowflake account. You’ll also learn how to block unwanted users and monitor accounts to track login history.
SPEAKERS
Rohan Gupta
Customer Technical Support Engineer, Snowflake
Vaibhavi Shah
Customer Technical Support Engineer, Snowflake
Monitoring and Status Page for Snowflake
This session will show you the engineering and support process behind the Snowflake status page, as well as the life cycle of resolving an incident. We’ll show you how teams monitor internal systems to provide information to users as quickly as possible. Lastly, we will show you how to subscribe to updates and modify your subscription.
SPEAKER
Stephanie Stillman
Product Manager, Snowflake
Naveen Rajavasireddy
Escalation Manager, Snowflake
Shhh. Connect to Snowflake Privately Using AWS PrivateLink
Learn from Snowflake and AWS how AWS PrivateLink works, and how you can use it to connect to Snowflake privately without using the public Internet.
SPEAKERS
Vikas Jain
Product Manager, Snowflake
Pratik Mankad
Partner Solutions Architect, AWS
Using Secure Views in Snowflake
In this session, we will uncover Snowflake’s ability to address data security and privacy through the exploration of secure views. Our goal is to give the security conscious customer an understanding of how Snowflake can isolate information, shelter underlying data sets and differentiate business decisions through this functionality.
You’ll learn how Snowflake can add privacy to your data, how to leverage secure views for internal and external scenarios, and the differences between secure and ‘standard’ views.
SPEAKERS
Vivek Mishra
Customer Technical Support Engineer, Snowflake
Gil Lee
Lead Customer Technical Support Engineer, Snowflake
Create, Configure and Monitor Virtual Warehouses
Attend this lab to explore how to create, configure, and monitor virtual warehouses in Snowflake. You’ll first create a virtual warehouse using both the Create Warehouse wizard in the UI as well as using SQL. You’ll then execute commands to alter, resume, and suspend the warehouse. Lastly, you’ll explore the various ways to monitor warehouse usage.
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How to Assess Usage and Storage within a Snowflake Account
Complete various exercises in this lab to assess the usage and storage activity within a Snowflake account. You’ll also view and set parameter values to control behavior within the account. Finally, you’ll execute various commands against the information schema and the account usage share to uncover more detailed information about the account, the objects, and users within the account.
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Identifying Performance Bottlenecks Using Query Profiles
This lab will show you how to review query profiles and rewrite queries to mitigate query performance bottlenecks and implement best practices to achieve a better query execution plan.
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Managing Network Policies for Access Lab
This lab will walk you through creating and validating network policies to restrict access to an IP subnet specific to Snowflake.
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Managing Snowflake Replication for Disaster Recovery
This lab will cover administrative tasks for setting up replication between global databases and performing switchover operations. Tasks include refreshing a secondary instance, monitoring progress, failover to the secondary instance, and failback to the original primary instance. Participants will also learn basic techniques to validate a secondary instance before switchover and receive an overview of account-level entities that are not replicated currently.
SPEAKER
Vinay Srihari
Field CTO, Snowflake
Sahaj Saini
Product Manager, Snowflake
Monitor and Optimize Data Storage in Snowflake
In this lab, you’ll explore how data objects are organized and the various ways to monitor and optimize data storage within Snowflake. You’ll first explore the Databases tab of the Snowflake user interface. You’ll then create objects via the UI and SQL and examine how they are organized. You’ll then execute queries to prove that Snowflake’s metadata enables you to execute certain queries without requiring compute. Next, you’ll programmatically execute various system functions to pull and analyze clustering metrics. Lastly, you’ll explore the Billing & Usage section of the Account tab and execute Information Schema and Account Usage commands to pull and analyze storage metrics.
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Restoring Database Objects with Snowflake’s Time Travel
Complete exercises in this lab that will familiarize you with Snowflake’s Time Travel functionality and syntax. You will create, modify, and drop database objects, and load and delete data. You will then use Time Travel to restore these objects at various points in time.
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Role-Based Security in Snowflake
This lab takes you through the steps needed to identify role-based requirements and implement them in Snowflake.
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