Stairway to Snowflake Level 3 – Configure Snowflake with Your Cloud Account
Learn how you can configure a Snowflake account in your cloud database and load data.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What is a Failed Deployment?
Today Steve talks about the concept of what a failure is when deploying changes.
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.
Stairway to Transaction Log Management in SQL Server, Level 4: Managing the Log in Simple Recovery Mode
Tony describes in more detail the SIMPLE recovery model, and the way it works, its advantages and disadvantages.
Managed Instance Gotchas – Configuration Items
Validate all of your settings and be prepared to make some changes during your migration process. Most of the incompatible options make sense when you think about the purpose of SQL MI – it is controlled by Microsoft. Hardware settings, local file access, high-availability settings, and auditing are configured differently or completely disabled.
Blogs
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
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Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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