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Through a new feature called Delta Direct. It converts Delta table metadata into the Iceberg format on the fly, allowing you to access Parquet files directly without data re-ingestion or duplication.

Dynamic Tables now support externally managed Iceberg tables, feature faster refreshes with latencies as low as 15 seconds, and have better built-in handling of slowly changing dimensions (SCDs).

Yes. With the new dbt Projects in Snowflake, you can now build and run dbt natively on the platform. This eliminates the need for separate orchestration tools, infrastructure, or IDEs.

Yes, Snowpipe Streaming has been significantly upgraded. It is now 3–5x cheaper, supports inline transformations, and includes a multi-language REST interface for greater flexibility.

OpenFlow is Snowflake’s native, multi-modal data integration platform. It is designed to reduce the complexity of ETL/ELT by moving any type of data (structured, unstructured, batch, streaming) across...

The key message is that the Snowflake platform is evolving beyond just data storage and analysis into a comprehensive environment to build with data. The announcements focused on providing native tools...

Features in "private preview" are typically available to a limited set of customers for testing and feedback. "Public preview" means the feature is more broadly available for testing but may still undergo...

Snowflake is making significant strides: Snowflake Postgres: (In development) A fully managed, enterprise-grade PostgreSQL database solution within Snowflake, bringing a popular transactional database...

Snowpark Container Services (SPCS), Snowflake's extensibility runtime, will soon be generally available in GCP regions. This allows customers to deploy custom solutions (data engineering pipelines, ML...

A more intuitive Replication interface (generally available) in Snowsight allows code-free configuration of failover groups, object selection, and replication scheduling. A simplified Bulk Failover interface...