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Snowflake Cookbook

By : Hamid Mahmood Qureshi, Hammad Sharif
Book Image

Snowflake Cookbook

By: Hamid Mahmood Qureshi, Hammad Sharif

Overview of this book

Snowflake is a unique cloud-based data warehousing platform built from scratch to perform data management on the cloud. This book introduces you to Snowflake's unique architecture, which places it at the forefront of cloud data warehouses. You'll explore the compute model available with Snowflake, and find out how Snowflake allows extensive scaling through the virtual warehouses. You will then learn how to configure a virtual warehouse for optimizing cost and performance. Moving on, you'll get to grips with the data ecosystem and discover how Snowflake integrates with other technologies for staging and loading data. As you progress through the chapters, you will leverage Snowflake's capabilities to process a series of SQL statements using tasks to build data pipelines and find out how you can create modern data solutions and pipelines designed to provide high performance and scalability. You will also get to grips with creating role hierarchies, adding custom roles, and setting default roles for users before covering advanced topics such as data sharing, cloning, and performance optimization. By the end of this Snowflake book, you will be well-versed in Snowflake's architecture for building modern analytical solutions and understand best practices for solving commonly faced problems using practical recipes.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Using Time Travel to recover from the accidental loss of table data

This recipe will go through a scenario of accidental data loss after a delete query has been executed, affecting data in a table. We will demonstrate how we can recover data after it has been deleted accidentally.

Getting ready

You will need to be connected to your Snowflake instance via the web UI or the SnowSQL client to execute this recipe.

How to do it…

We will be creating a table and populating that table with some sample data. Further on in the recipe, we will run DELETE on this table and demonstrate how to recover to a point before the data was deleted. The steps for this recipe are as follows:

  1. We will create a new database, followed by creating a table containing some sample customer data. We will be using sample data provided by Snowflake to populate this table. To do so, run the following SQL:
    CREATE DATABASE C8_R2;
    CREATE TABLE CUSTOMER AS 
    SELECT * FROM SNOWFLAKE_SAMPLE_DATA.TPCDS_SF10TCL...