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A. MortonMastering Snowflake Solutionshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8029-4_3

3. Cloning

Adam Morton1  
(1)
Sydney, NSW, Australia
 

In this chapter, you’ll take a look at two key features that act as real differentiators for Snowflake in the data warehouse market: Time Travel and zero-copy cloning.

Any software development lifecycle requires you to take a requirement, design a solution, write the code, test the code, obtain user feedback, and validate results. These steps must happen before you release the code to production. Needless to say, this takes a lot of time and effort.

Of course, adopting an agile approach, which many organizations have done, shortens ...

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