Snowflake supports standard SQL, including analytic extensions. This chapter does not review basic SQL commands; instead, it looks at a few Snowflake-specific SQL extensions. These extensions apply to standard data, semi-structured data, and unstructured data.
The chapter starts with an explanation of Snowflake data sampling and estimating functions that can be used on standard data. It demonstrates how to post-process query results in Snowflake. Then the chapter focuses on semi-structured ...