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Snowflake Openflow & Cortex Code: AI-Driven Data Integration
7+ hour, 38+ min ago (649+ words) Data integration is one of the first and most critical steps in building any data pipeline. It's how raw data becomes usable, trusted, and ready for downstream applications. But in practice, it's also where teams lose the most time. Connectiving…...
Snowflake Interactive Analytics: 4 New Real-Time Features
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (541+ words) Interactive warehouses are purpose-built for speed. They are optimized for short, highly concurrent reads, the kind that power dashboards, data APIs and AI agents querying structured data in real time. We're introducing Fallback Warehouse support for interactive warehouses. With a…...
Datometry for Snowflake: Accelerate Teradata Migration
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (512+ words) For enterprises running mission-critical analytics on Teradata, the path to the Snowflake AI Data Cloud has long been constrained by a difficult tradeoff: sign another expensive, long-term renewal or take on a high-risk, multi-year rewrite. Today, that obstacle has been…...
Introducing Snowflake DCM Projects: Declarative Infrastructure
1+ week, 6+ day ago (344+ words) Fig. 1: Jan Sommerfeld gives an introduction on how to create auditable workflows to manage Snowflake objects with the new DCM Projects. Managing Snowflake objects at scale has always required careful coordination " tracking what exists, what changed and who changed it....
Snowflake Connect: Data Engineering | Building Transformation Pipelines for AI-ready data
2+ week, 13+ hour ago (195+ words) Snowflake Snowflake Connect: Data Engineering Building Transformation Pipelines for AI-ready data Building a successful AI strategy requires more than just high-performance models; it demands a modern, resilient data foundation. This edition of Snowflake Connect: Data Engineering provides a deep dive…...
Snowflake Storage for Apache Iceberg" Tables: Snowflake Simple Interoperability
2+ week, 6+ day ago (672+ words) The promise of an "open lakehouse" has always been about choice " about giving every team the ability to use their preferred engine, whether that's Snowflake or not. But as organizations adopt Apache Iceberg" as their interoperable data format, a new…...
Snowflake parse_json(): 2x Faster Performance with simdjson
3+ week, 4+ day ago (252+ words) This update is now generally available (GA) for all Snowflake customer accounts. Fast forward to today: However, that early implementation came with a challenge: Over the years, Snowflake added many Snowflake-specific JSON behaviors that customers came to rely on. These…...
If You're Serious About Data Analysis, You Need a Semantic Model
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (540+ words) Take a real question: "What was NRR last two quarters, and what are the top churn drivers by ARR?" Most teams give their text-to-SQL system DDL, column comments, and a handful of sample queries. That system sees something like this:…...
Cortex Code Updates: Faster AI Data Engineering on Snowflake
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (916+ words) Cortex Code, Snowflake's AI coding agent, is evolving rapidly and becoming part of the day-to-day workflow for more data practitioners across every team. From seasoned engineers to less technical builders, it helps teams bring ideas to life faster, put them…...
Next-Gen Data Engineering: 6 Snowflake Features Transforming How You Build
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (699+ words) Here are six features that will take your data engineering productivity to the next level. For years, managing incremental processing was a manual headache involving complex logic and scheduling. Dynamic Tables have enabled data engineers, platform teams and even analysts…...