Advanced Snowflake

Chapter 1. Getting Started & Environment Setup

A Note for Early Release Readers

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If you have comments about how we might improve the content and/or examples in this book, or if you notice missing material within this chapter, please reach out to the editor at [e-mail].

Kudos to you for starting this book and taking the next step in your Snowflake journey. In this chapter, I will go through the new Snowflake UI, explain more about all the different sections, and show you how to set up the environment you will need to follow the examples presented later in this book.

To follow along, I recommend having a working Snowflake Account or a Snowflake Trial Account. You can create a trial account here: https://signup.snowflake.com/

Introduction to Snowflake’s new UI (Snowsight)

Snowflake has had two different UIs in recent times. The legacy classic UI (Figure 1-1) is no longer available for accounts and Snowflake recommends moving to the new UI called Snowsight (Figure 1-2).

Figure 1-1. Snowflake Classic UI

Figure 1-2. Snowflake Snowsight (New Snowflake ...