Stairway to Snowflake Level 1 - An Introduction to Snowflake
Get an overview of Snowflake in this level, one of the fastest growing data warehouse platforms in the world.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2021-02-17)
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Get an overview of Snowflake in this level, one of the fastest growing data warehouse platforms in the world.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2021-02-17)
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In this next level of the Stairway to Snowflake, we look at the considerations for creating an account and how to set one up.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2021-05-24)
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Learn how you can configure a Snowflake account in your cloud database and load data.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2021-12-01)
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This next level of the Stairway to Snowflake looks at the Snowsight UI and what you can accomplish with it.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2024-10-23)
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Snowflake has its own CLI tool: SnowSQL. In this level of the Stairway Series learn how to work with this dialect in Snowflake and Visual Studio Code.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2024-11-20)
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In this next level of the Stairway to Snowflake, learn about creating and dropping databases, with some options for cloning from different sources.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2025-01-15)
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In this next level of the Stairway to Snowflake we examine the wide variety of table types that exist in the platform.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2025-05-21)
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In this next level of the Stairway to Biml, learn how metadata makes your Biml code more efficient and helpful in generating packages.
2024-02-14 (first published: 2016-11-09)
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In the next level of the Stairway to Biml, we breakdown the various elements in a Biml file to help you understand what parts of the files are used to control the package generation.
2014-07-02
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I run this code on SQL Server 2022.
CREATE TABLE Drink
(
drinkid INT NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
drinkname VARCHAR(20),
rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO
INSERT INTO Drink
(
drinkid,
drinkname,
rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
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