Snowflake extends the data retention period for the source table temporarily when a stream is not consumed regularly.

Regardless of which edition of Snowflake you have on your account, if the data retention period for the table is less than 14 days, behind the scenes it is extended to the smaller of the stream transactional offset or 14 days (if the data retention period for the table is less than 14 days). But your monthly storage charges will be impacted if you extend the data retention period.

A stream's main cost is the processing time used by a virtual warehouse to query the stream. You see these charges on your bill as Snowflake credits.

Within Snowflake, it would be a resource monitor. Using resource monitors, you can set limits on how many credits are consumed through user-managed virtual warehouses and virtual warehouses used by cloud services.

How many credits are consumed, would be based on the warehouse size and how long it runs.

The resource monitor would set limits for a particulate interval or date range. When these limits that are set are reached and/or approaching, the resource monitor would send alert notifications and/or suspend the warehouses.

Account admin. are the only ones who can create resource monitors, but account admin. can allow users with other roles to view and modify resource monitors through SQL.

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The Data Cloud or the Snowflake Data Cloud is an overall Data Platform for analytical data workloads. Currently Snowflake is positioning their overall Data Cloud to handle 6 workloads:

• Data Warehousing
• Data Engineering
• Data Lake
• Data Science
• Data Applications
• Data Exchange

I wrote a more in depth article on the what I think the Snowflake Data Cloud is:
Snowflake now also has the overall Snowgrid which is the overall connected Data Mesh of all of Snowflake's accounts across all cloud providers and regions. Snowflake has achieved this through replication features across clouds.

There is no setup involved in fail-safe as it is a non-configurable service that is always on to ensure historical data is protected against unexpected failures. It is intended to be used only when all other recovery options have been exhausted. It is accessed only by Snowflake themselves, so if you need a restore from fail-safe, you must create a support ticket! Be aware that recovery may take several hours or several days to complete.

The data cloud is where data goes to live, waiting for someone to access it from anywhere at anytime! In all seriousness, the cloud is essentially a computing model that stores data on the internet, in this case through Snowflake, allowing it to become accessible from virtually anywhere in the world. With Snowflake, their data cloud architecture offers near-unlimited storage and compute in real time, therefore eliminating the need for businesses to purchase or manage their own data storage infrastructure.

Let's first break down what a warehouse is! A data warehouse is a repository that stores current and old data from various sources. Since it is on the cloud, this repository can easily scale up and down in size based on the amount of data stored, making it an awesome flexible environment that can always meet an organization's needs and enable them to make key business decisions.

Snowflake Partner Connect is a tool that lets you create trial accounts with selected Snowflake business partners! These businesses include the following: Alteryx, ALTR, Data.world, Data guise, Dataiku, DataOps, Domo, Etleap, Fivetran, H20.ai, Hunters, HRV, Immuta, Informatica, Matillion, Qlik, Sigma, Rivery, Sisense, Snaplogic, SqlDBM, Striim, Talend, ThoughSpot, and Zepl.
The tool is so great since it allows you to try all these different 3rd party tools and services, which you can later adopt to meet your own business needs and wants. Partner Connect is limited to account administrators who have a verified email address, though, so you must use or have access to the ACCOUNTADMIN role to use it.

Snowgrid is a platform where you can share and collaborate easily without ETL, and all with a single copy of your data! Break down data silos to instantly access data. Discover and share governed data between teams, business units, partners, customers, and more.
It comes with sophisticated cross-cloud governance controls and flexible policies to ensure Snowflake’s modern data sharing and collaboration is secure. Policies follow the data to simplify governance at scale, while unlocking more value from even sensitive and regulated data.
Maintain new levels of business continuity with cross-cloud and cross-region connectivity, so you can operate without disruption and deliver better customer experiences. Comply with regional and industry data regulations so you can operate locally and globally to grow and serve your business.
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Yes. The SnowSQL CLI is free to use.