Название: SnowPro Core Certification Companion: Hands-on Preparation and Practice
Автор: Maja Ferle
Издательство: Apress
Год: 2023
Страниц: 354
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.9 MB
This study companion helps you prepare for the SnowPro Core Certification exam. The author guides your studies so you will not have to tackle the exam by yourself. To help you track your progress, chapters in this book correspond to the exam domains as described on Snowflake’s website. Upon studying the material in this book, you will have solid knowledge that should give you the best shot possible at taking and passing the exam and earning the certification you deserve. Each chapter provides explanations, instructions, guidance, tips, and other information with the level of detail that you need to prepare for the exam. You will not waste your time with unneeded detail and advanced content which is out of scope of the exam. Focus is kept on reviewing the materials and helping you become familiar with the content of the exam that is recommended by Snowflake. Snowflake is the first analytic database natively designed and built for the cloud. It is delivered in the form of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Compared to traditional databases, Snowflake is generally faster, easier to use, and more flexible. The Chapter 2 introduces the basic features of the Snowflake Cloud Data platform. It provides an overview of the various Snowflake editions, cloud platforms, and regions where it can be hosted. It also reviews the different ways you can interact with Snowflake, including the web user interface, command-line interface, and connectors. The main functionalities of Snowflake are data storage, data processing such as loading and unloading, and analytic solutions that can be accomplished via SQL queries or supported programming languages.