Chapter 6Continuous Data Protection
THE SNOWPRO CORE EXAM TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
Snowflake provides a comprehensive set of features that protect data from malicious actions and human error in a Snowflake environment. These features include data encryption at rest and in transit, authentication and authorization controls, multifactor authentication, and network-level policies to control access. Snowflake also provides some novel features that help protect and recover data in the event of human error. For example, Time Travel and the undrop feature allow data recovery after it has been inadvertently modified. This chapter introduces the components of continuous data protection and covers Time Travel, Fail-safe, the undrop functionality, and the concept of transient and temporary tables in detail. Authentication, authorization, multifactor authentication, and other security topics are covered in more depth in Chapter 9, “Security.”
Components of Continuous Data Protection
Snowflake provides several data protection features, including encryption, role-based access, authentication and authorization, Time Travel, and Fail-safe. Data encryption, ...
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