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Core Platform

Conquer Complex Updates: Mastering SQL Server's UPDATE FROM in Your Snowflake Migration

Learn how to migrate complex SQL Server UPDATE FROM statements to Snowflake. Discover best practices for handling joins, aliases, and multi-table updates.
APR 23, 2025|4 min read
Core Platform

Unlock the Power of Sampling in Your Snowflake Data Warehouse Migration

Validate schema, performance, and data consistency with row sampling to reduce risk and gain early insights before migrating your data warehouse to Snowflake.
APR 22, 2025|5 min read
Gen AI

Evaluating Multimodal vs. Text-Based Retrieval for RAG with Snowflake Cortex

Discover how multimodal retrieval on Snowflake Cortex transforms enterprise PDF search, enhancing accuracy and speed across complex document formats.
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APR 21, 2025|8 min read
Core Platform

Meet the SnowConvert Migration Assistant: Your Key to Faster, AI-Powered Data Warehouse Modernization

Speed up SQL migration with the SnowConvert Migration Assistant. Use AI-powered suggestions to resolve complex issues and unlock the Snowflake AI Data Cloud faster.
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APR 17, 2025|5 min read
Core Platform

A Deep Dive into Envoy at Snowflake

We’re thrilled to announce that the migration to Envoy Proxy is now complete across ~50 supported regions. Read more on our journey.
APR 11, 2025|17 min read
Core Platform

SnowConvert Extends Support to Azure Synapse and Enhances More Capabilities

Snowflake expands SnowConvert to ease migrations with support for Azure Synapse and other capabilities — making cloud transitions easier than ever.
APR 10, 2025|7 min read
Gen AI

Cortex Agents: Unifying Data Insights with Snowflake

Snowflake's Cortex Agents unify structured analytics and unstructured search, offering a seamless experience for complex data queries.
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APR 09, 2025|7 min read
Gen AI

Low-Latency and High-Throughput Inference for Long Context with Sequence Parallelism (aka Arctic Ulysses)

Ulysses, a novel sequence parallelism technique, boosts long-context LLM inference performance with 3.4x lower latency and better GPU efficiency.
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APR 03, 2025|14 min read
Gen AI

Think. Execute. Excel: Arctic Text2SQL with Execution-Guided CoT

Learn how Snowflake’s ExCoT optimizes Text2SQL with execution-guided CoT and DPO, setting a new benchmark in natural language to SQL accuracy.
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APR 02, 2025|10 min read

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