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DFS-Exclusive 1/29 Snowflake Virtual Hands-On Lab

January 29, 2025 | 09:00 AM CT

This is not a public Snowflake event – it is exclusively being conducted for DFS resources.  

No DFS’s Snowflake environment or data will be utilized.

This session WILL BE recorded.

VHOL participants will receive a 15% discount code towards Snowflake Instructor-Led Training (public classes) – available courses listed here

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Snowflake is conducting the fifth DFS-exclusive Virtual Hands-on-Lab (VHOL).  Our next VHOL is “Getting Started with Cortex Analyst: Augment BI with AI.”

VHOL Logistics

Virtual HOL
Wednesday, 1/29
9:00 – 10:30 am Central
**VHOL advance registration & environment set-up is required. In addition, the 1/29 VHOL registration cut-off date is 5:00 pm Central on Friday, 1/24.**

Office Hours
We will also conduct 2 separate office hours (Wednesday, 1/22 & Monday, 1/27) prior to the VHOL to facilitate participant trial environment set-up.
**Office hour calendar invites will only be shared with registered individuals.**

Snowflake Capabilities Utilized in VHOL

  • Cortex Analyst including integration of Semantic Model
  • Cortex Search integrate Cortex Search as a way to improve literal string searches
  • Streamlit in Snowflake


Why use Cortex Analyst?

Historically, business users have primarily relied on BI dashboards and reports to answer their data questions. However, these resources often lack the flexibility needed, leaving users dependent on overburdened data analysts for updates or answers, which can take days. Cortex Analyst disrupts this cycle by providing a natural language interface with high text-to-SQL accuracy. With Cortex Analyst organizations can streamline the development of intuitive, conversational applications that can enable business users to ask questions using natural language and receive more accurate answers in near real time.

This VHOL will focus on getting started with Cortex Analyst, teaching the mechanics of how to interact with the Cortex Analyst service and how to define the Semantic Model definitions that enhance the precision of results from this conversational interface over your Snowflake data.

What you will learn:

  • How to construct and configure a Semantic Model for your data
  • How to call the Cortex Analyst REST API to use your Semantic Model to enable natural-language question-asking on top of your structured data in Snowflake via Streamlit in Snowflake (SiS) application
  • How to integrate Cortex Analyst with Cortex Search to enhance SQL queries generated
  • How to enable Join support for Star Schemas
  • How to enable multi-turn conversations

Next Steps

1 – First step is to submit your registration for the 1/29 VHOL
2 – Attend an Office Hour to ensure your environment is set-up prior to the 1/29 VHOL
3 – Detailed instructions for VHOL environment setup will be provided to registered individuals

Snowflake Speakers

Fahad Azeem, Senior Sales Engineer
Trish Juarez, Sales Director

Please email Trish Juarez ([email protected]) with any questions.

 

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