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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_5

5. Getting Started with SnowSQL

Dmitry Anoshin1 , Dmitry Shirokov2 and Donna Strok3
(1)
British Columbia, Canada
(2)
Burnaby, BC, Canada
(3)
Seattle, WA, USA
 

SnowSQL is the next-generation command-line client for connecting to Snowflake, executing SQL queries, and performing all DDL and DML operations, including loading data into and unloading data out of database tables.

In this chapter, we will go over the following topics:

  • Installing SnowSQL

  • Configuring SnowSQL

  • Using commands in SnowSQL

  • Making multiple connections

  • Loading data using SnowSQL

After this chapter, you will be able to load data into Snowflake using the SnowSQL command-line ...

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