To Snowsight or Not to Snowsight
Frank Bell2021-10-20T16:36:16-07:00To Snowsight or Not To Snowsight: Back in June 2021, I was writing a chapter for our new Snowflake Essentials Book on the Snowflake Web User Interface. I had [...]
Snowflake’s Financial Services Data Summit Recap
Frank Bell2021-09-17T13:05:24-07:00Snowflake hosted an excellent virtual event this week focused on Snowflake's Data Cloud solutions for Financial Services. What we really enjoyed about this Industry Vertical Snowflake "Summit" was the [...]
What is the Snowflake Data Cloud?
Frank Bell2021-08-17T15:46:54-07:00What is the Snowflake Data Cloud is sort of a loaded question for long-time Snowflake Professionals like a large chunk of our Snowflake Solutions Community. From a Snowflake Veteran [...]
What is Snoptimizer?
Frank Bell2022-01-14T21:38:14-08:00Hmmm. What is Snoptimizer™? Snoptimizer™ is the first automated Cost, Performance, and Security Optimizer for Snowflake Accounts. It is by far the easiest and fastest way to optimize your [...]
Snowflake Compute T-Shirt Sizes
Frank Bell2021-08-12T23:36:32-07:00Snowflake T-Shirt Sizes Fun. When I first started using Snowflake back at the beginning of 2018 I thought the T-Shirt Sizing was kind of weird. It was just so different [...]
Snowflake Data Cloud Cost Risks
Frank Bell2021-12-06T13:18:02-08:00Let me first state, I love using Snowflake, the technology itself. I fell in love with it at the beginning of 2018 when I realized how easily I could [...]
Snowflake Cost Guardrails – Resource Monitors
Frank Bell2021-08-13T17:46:39-07:00The Snowflake Data Cloud brings incredible scale and power to any analytical data processing. It is an amazing revolution to now be able to launch their T-shirt warehouse sizes from [...]
Snowflake Cost Optimization Best Practices
Frank Bell2021-08-24T19:29:15-07:00I have been working with Snowflake since the beginning of 2018 and it has been one of the most fun and scaleable data solutions I have worked with in my [...]
Snowflake Create Warehouse Defaults
Frank Bell2021-08-13T22:20:42-07:00I have been working with the Snowflake Data Cloud since it was just an Analytical RDBMS. Since the beginning of 2018, the Snowflake technology has been pretty fun to work [...]
Snowflake Data Masking
Frank Bell2021-08-13T17:57:07-07:00Last week, the United States CDC issued new COVID-19 mask policies. I will leave that for many others to discuss, but for the COOL Data People reading this we [...]
New Data Shares Added in January 2021 on the Snowflake Data Marketplace
Frank Bell2021-02-08T14:37:41-08:00
How Snowflake Pricing Works
Frank Bell2021-08-09T15:19:55-07:00Usage Based Pricing in the cloud in some ways is incredibly awesome. For those of us who lived through the days of scaling Data Centers and waiting for hardware [...]
Snowflake Cost Anti-patterns
Frank Bell2021-12-06T13:12:53-08:00Snowflake is still my favorite Analytical Database since the beginning of 2018 but as I often present in my live training sessions and webinars, WITH GREAT POWER (practically unlimited [...]