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I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
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You can find the slides for the session Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform in this GitHub repo.
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