Performance tuning is often regarded as a “black” art, available to those with experience gained over many years of hands-on work. This section offers insights into how Snowflake works “under the hood” and provides tools to better understand behavior and identify options to improve performance.
Chapter 3 discusses micro-partitions and cluster keys for large-volume data sets that are critical to performance. This chapter delves into the fundamentals driving performance, starting with clustering. We cannot ...
