December 2022
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 41m
English
Content preview from Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification Study Guide
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Chapter 1Introduction and Overview
THE SNOWPRO CORE EXAM TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
In this chapter, you learn the history of Snowflake and an overview of the Snowflake journey so far. We also discuss the various Snowflake certifications and focus on the SnowPro Core certification.
Introducing Snowflake
Snowflake is a relatively new database that has been built specifically for the cloud and is geared primarily toward data warehousing solutions. Snowflake has been built from scratch as a cloud-only data warehousing platform. A significant advantage of the Snowflake platform compared to other data warehouses is its differentiated architecture. Unlike several other database engines designed to work on the cloud, Snowflake takes full advantage of the cloud platform's novel features. The result is a hybrid architecture in which the compute or the processing layer can be scaled up and down independently of the scaling of storage. This powerful and cost-effective capability allows customers to acquire additional processing power when they need it. Once the required workloads are processed, customers can return to a lower processing state to conserve ...
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