Stairway to Snowflake Level 8 - Event Tables
In this next level of the Stairway to Snowflake, we delve into Event Tables. These are used to capture telemetry from your Snowflake database.
2025-07-02
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Snowflake
Parent – Child Task Automation in Snowflake via Task Graph
This article explores how to use Snowflake’s task features to implement parent-child data workflows. We will walk through a real-world scenario in which a healthcare organization manages patient records using a sequence of tasks for data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and reporting.
2025-06-18
Real-time Data Streaming in Snowflake
Real-time data ingestion has become essential for modern analytics and operational intelligence. Organizations across industries need to process data streams from IoT sensors, financial transactions, and application events with minimal latency. Snowflake offers two robust approaches to meet these real-time data needs: Snowpipe for near-real-time file-based streaming and Direct Streaming via Snowpark API for true real-time data integration.
2025-06-13
Stairway to Snowflake Level 7 - Snowflake Tables
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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Stairway to Snowflake Level 5 - Using Snowflake with SnowSQL and Visual Studio Code
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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Load Data into Snowflake Using Python with Pandas
Loading data into Snowflake is a common need. Using Python and pandas is a common go-to solution for data professionals
2025-04-21
Stairway to Snowflake Level 6 - Creating and Cloning Snowflake Databases
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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Stairway to Snowflake Level 4 - Introducing Snowsight, Snowflake’s Web UI
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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Bridging Snowflake and Azure Data Stack: A Step-by-Step Guide
This article shows how to access Snowflake information from Synapse Analytics.
2024-06-03
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Data Transfer from Snowflake to Azure Blob using Synapse Analytics
Two of the top cloud services right now are Azure Synapse and Snowflake. Whatever your organization is implementing or if you need to transfer data to/from those services, it is important to know how to interconnect them and be able to transfer data between services.
2023-06-09
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Fixing the Error
On SQL Server 2025, I have a database that has this collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. I decide I want to run this code:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C*3068 and good night', '*') AS 'A Classic';
I get this error:Msg 9844, Level 16, State 4, Line 24 The char/varchar input type uses an unsupported collation. Only a UTF8 collation is supported with char/varchar input type in UNISTR function.What is the easiest way to fix this error? See possible answers