Snowflake's ability to eliminate data silos and run workloads from a single platform creates opportunities to democratize data analytics, allowing users at all levels within an organization to make data-driven decisions. This clear, comprehensive guide will show you how to build integrated data applications and develop new revenue streams based on data. The author deftly unravels complex topics, provides hands-on SQL examples, and reveals how you can use the Snowflake Data Cloud to avoid replatforming or migrating data unnecessarily. You will learn how to: Efficiently capture, store, and process large amounts of data at an amazing speed Rapidly ingest and transform real-time data feeds in both structured and semistructured format and deliver meaningful data insights within minutes Use Time Travel and Zero-Copy cloning to produce a sensible data recovery strategy that balances the need for system resilience with ongoing storage cost Securely share data and reduce or eliminate data integration costs by accessing fresh, ready-to-query data sets available within the Snowflake Data Marketplace

About the Author
Joyce Kay Avila has more than 25 years as a business and technology leader. She is a Texas Certified Public Accountant and currently holds one Amazon Web Services certification and one Snowflake certification. She also holds twelve Salesforce certifications, including the Tableau CRM and Einstein Discovery certification along with several Salesforce Architect-level certifications. Joyce works as the Snowflake Practice Manager at SpringML, a Snowflake partner who helps organizations unlock the power of data-driven insights using Snowflake's unique cloud data platform. Previously, Joyce earned bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and in Accounting Business Administration, a Master's degree of Business Administration, and completed her PhD coursework in Accounting Information Systems. In support of the Salesforce and Snowflake communities, Joyce produces a running series of how-to videos on her YouTube channel. In 2022, she was selected as one of 48 Snowflake Data Superheroes worldwide.


Book Information
ISBN 9781098103828
Author Joyce Kay Avila
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint O'Reilly Media
Publisher O'Reilly Media