Course : Snowflake, getting started
Practical course - 2d
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 | Discover Snowflake's key concepts and architecture |
| Understanding and using the different user roles |
| Create and transform data in Snowflake databases |
| Import complex structured and semi-structured data |
| Use cache to optimize requests and costs |
| Creating data pipes and streams |
Intended audience
Project managers, BI experts, DBA system engineers.
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of SQL and Database Management Systems (DBMS).
Practical details
Hands-on work
Apports théoriques illustrés par des exercices
pratiques pour chaque fonctionnalité, formant un fil rouge.
Teaching methods
The experience of our trainers enables us to enrich the training with concrete examples of implementation.
Course schedule
1 Introduction
- A brief history of data warehouses.
- A reminder of the fundamentals of a data warehouse.
- The evolution of traditional architecture.
- Cloud computing.
Storyboarding workshops
2 Snowflake: key concepts and architecture
- Snowflake, a Software as a Service (SaaS): benefits, virtual computing instances, storage service.
- Three-layer architecture: data base storage, query processing, cloud services.
- Snowflake connection: web interface, SnowSQL, drivers, connectors.
- Storage hierarchy: data bases and schemas, tables, views, stages.
Demonstration
Snowflake ecosystem. Connect to Snowflake.
3 Getting started with Snowflake WebUI
- Introduction and "user roles".
- Data base navigation: database and object property panel, use hyperlinks, view privileges.
- Data exploration: navigation, SQL input and worksheet results panes. Worksheet exploration.
- View detailed statistics.
- Export data via clipboard or file.
Hands-on work
Create an account. Display help panel. Change role. Identify current database/objects/schema. Create a SQL select statement. Explore and display data.
4 Warehouse Snowflake - DB objects - Transformations
- Notion of warehouse in the Snowflake sense.
- Use of context menu, SQL script to specify warehouse.
- Feature "Code Highlight".
- Database objects. Importing data into the database.
- Transformations: SQL functions REPLACE, CONCAT. ETL & ELT. Import a text file into a worksheet.
Hands-on work
Create warehouse, DB, table, file format for import. Perform transformations.
5 Advanced storage and querying
- Staging data: uploading and organizing data.
- Data storage structures: entity, attribute and relationship, sequence.
- Semi-structured data: definition, formats usable with Snowflake, storage in a VARIANT column.
- Complex semi-structured data: query, use of FLATTEN, GET, GET_PATH functions.
Hands-on work
Load data into a course. Create a sequence. Use a sequence with the NEXT VALUE function. Perform queries.
6 Performance
- Different levels of cache: Result cache, Local Disk cache, Remote Disk.
- Optimize cache usage.
- Best practices in management optimization: warehouses, costs.
- Best practices in security and role management.
Hands-on work
Cache analysis, optimize its use.
7 Design & Deploy
- Schedule executions using Tasks.
- Object replication using cloning and time travel.
- Pipeline creation and data streaming (change data capture).
Hands-on work
Plan executions. Cloning. Create pipelines and streams.
8 Business case presentation
- Case study: 360° vision of a supply chain.
- Conclusion.
Storyboarding workshops
Customer reviews
4,6 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
CÉPHAS T.
04/12/25
5 / 5
Complete for beginners on snowflake. Top of the range!
ALLAN R.
04/12/25
4 / 5
getting to grips with Snowflake for the first time
ALAIN G.
04/12/25
4 / 5
A little too fast for my taste
PARTICIPANTS
Project managers, BI experts, DBA system engineers.
PREREQUISITES
Good knowledge of SQL and Database Management Systems (DBMS).
TRAINER QUALIFICATIONS
The experts leading the training are specialists in the covered subjects. They have been approved by our instructional teams for both their professional knowledge and their teaching ability, for each course they teach. They have at least five to ten years of experience in their field and hold (or have held) decision-making positions in companies.
ASSESSMENT TERMS
The trainer evaluates each participant’s academic progress throughout the training using multiple choice, scenarios, hands-on work and more.
Participants also complete a placement test before and after the course to measure the skills they’ve developed.
TERMS AND DEADLINES
Registration must be completed 24 hours before the start of the training.
ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Do you need special accessibility accommodations? Contact Mrs. Fosse, Disability Manager, at psh-accueil@orsys.fr to review your request and its feasibility.
Project managers, BI experts, DBA system engineers.
PREREQUISITES
Good knowledge of SQL and Database Management Systems (DBMS).
TRAINER QUALIFICATIONS
The experts leading the training are specialists in the covered subjects. They have been approved by our instructional teams for both their professional knowledge and their teaching ability, for each course they teach. They have at least five to ten years of experience in their field and hold (or have held) decision-making positions in companies.
ASSESSMENT TERMS
The trainer evaluates each participant’s academic progress throughout the training using multiple choice, scenarios, hands-on work and more.
Participants also complete a placement test before and after the course to measure the skills they’ve developed.
TEACHING AIDS AND TECHNICAL RESOURCES
• The main teaching aids and instructional methods used in the training are audiovisual aids, documentation and course material, hands-on application exercises and corrected exercises for practical training courses, case studies and coverage of real cases for training seminars.
• At the end of each course or seminar, ORSYS provides participants with a course evaluation questionnaire that is analysed by our instructional teams.
• A check-in sheet for each half-day of attendance is provided at the end of the training, along with a course completion certificate if the trainee attended the entire session.
• The main teaching aids and instructional methods used in the training are audiovisual aids, documentation and course material, hands-on application exercises and corrected exercises for practical training courses, case studies and coverage of real cases for training seminars.
• At the end of each course or seminar, ORSYS provides participants with a course evaluation questionnaire that is analysed by our instructional teams.
• A check-in sheet for each half-day of attendance is provided at the end of the training, along with a course completion certificate if the trainee attended the entire session.
TERMS AND DEADLINES
Registration must be completed 24 hours before the start of the training.
ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Do you need special accessibility accommodations? Contact Mrs. Fosse, Disability Manager, at psh-accueil@orsys.fr to review your request and its feasibility.
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