Explore the modern market of data analytics platforms and the benefits of using Snowflake
computing the data warehouse built for the cloud. With the rise of cloud technologies
organizations prefer to deploy their analytics using cloud providers such as Amazon Web
Services (AWS) Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform. Cloud vendors are offering modern
data platforms for building cloud analytics solutions to collect data and consolidate into
single storage solutions that provide insights for business users. The core of any analytics
framework is the data warehouse and previously customers did not have many choices of platform
to use. Snowflake was built specifically for the cloud and it is a true game changer for the
analytics market. This book will help onboard you to Snowflake present best practices to
deploy and use the Snowflake data warehouse. In addition it covers modern analytics
architecture and use cases. It provides use cases of integration with leading analytics
software such as Matillion ETL Tableau and Databricks. Finally it covers migration scenarios
for on-premise legacy data warehouses. What You Will Learn Know the key functionalities of
Snowflake Set up security and access with cluster Bulk load data into Snowflake using the COPY
command Migrate from a legacy data warehouse to Snowflake integrate the Snowflake data platform
with modern business intelligence (BI) and data integration tools Who This Book Is For Those
working with data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) technologies and existing and
potential Snowflake users
