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Jumpstart Snowflake: A Step-by-Step Guide to Modern Cloud Analytics
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Jumpstart Snowflake: A Step-by-Step Guide to Modern Cloud Analytics

by Dmitry Anoshin, Dmitry Shirokov, Donna Strok
December 2019
Beginner to intermediate
270 pages
4h 9m
English
Apress
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© Dmitry Anoshin, Dmitry Shirokov, Donna Strok 2020
D. Anoshin et al.Jumpstart Snowflakehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5328-1_3

3. Building a Virtual Warehouse

Dmitry Anoshin1 , Dmitry Shirokov2 and Donna Strok3
(1)
British Columbia, Canada
(2)
Burnaby, BC, Canada
(3)
Seattle, WA, USA
 
A Snowflake virtual warehouse is a cluster of compute resources for your Snowflake database. These compute resources include CPU, memory allocation, and temporary storage. Virtual warehouse concepts are important to understand because a virtual warehouse is the foundation of what you will build inside your Snowflake account. In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Overview of Snowflake virtual data warehouses

  • Understanding warehouse use cases

  • Virtual data warehouse ...

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