Let's first create a stage. A stage is a logical concept or an abstraction of a filesystem location that is external or internal to Snowflake. In this case, an external stage has been used. The location can be managed in one of the object stores supported by the underlying cloud storage. In the case of AWS, S3 is used for this purpose. This recipe uses S3. The following statement creates a stage named sfuser_ext_stage. The stage should be accessible to Snowflake: CREATE OR REPLACE STAGE sfuser_ext_stage Nealon consistently refuses to use contractions, for no reason. It can’t be in service of rendering accurate Hiberno-English, because that would require more contractions, not less.

Attempts by her Dubliner classmates to romanticise her upbringing are presented as the patronising comments they are, such as when Xanthe – her best friend – refers to Debbie not knowing who her father is as "like a culchie version of Mamma Mia". Eighteen-year-old Debbie was raised on her family’s rural dairy farm, forty minutes and a world away from Dublin. She lives with her mother, Maeve, a skittish woman who takes to her bed for days on end, claims not to know who Debbie’s father is, and believes her dreams are prophecies. Rounding out their small family is Maeve’s brother Billy, who lives in a caravan behind their house, drinks too much, and likes to impersonate famous dead writers online. Though they may have their quirks, the Whites’ fierce love for one another is never in doubt. While time travel is normally required for production databases, you wouldn't normally need time travel and the fail-safe for temporary databases such as databases that are used in ETL processing. Removing time travel and the fail-safe helps in reducing storage costs. Let's see how that is done: CREATE TRANSIENT DATABASE temporary_database Do note that although we have set the schema to have no time travel and no fail-safe, we can still set individual tables within the schema to be protected by fail-safe and time travel. Setting these options at the schema level sets the default for all tables created inside that schema. Debbie’s home life is one marked by mysticism and austerity. Maeve, the erstwhile village bombshell now living with an undiagnosed mental illness, spends her days recording her dreams and collecting shells as talismans. Billy spins tales of Greek gods from his caravan roof, tracing constellations in the stars and needling Debbie for stories.Louise Harland narrated the book and there could not have been a better person. She epitomises Debbie and really brings her character and little quirks to life. A local temporary table (also known as a volatile table) persists for the duration of the user session in which it was created and is not visible to other users. A temporary table's definition and contents are dropped at the end of the user session. Let's query the newly created external table. This would show each row of the result set as a JSON document. Within each row, you should be able to see different columns with their respective values as key-value pairs: select * from ext_tbl_userdata1; From there, Nealon asks how we discover who we are once we venture out on our own, as Debbie struggles to find herself, while avoiding turning into her mother. The time travel configuration can also be changed at a later time by altering the database with ALTER: ALTER DATABASE temporary_database

Discover how Snowflake’s unique objects and features can be used to leverage universal modeling techniques through real-world examples and SQL recipes Besides being a coming-out-age story filled with complications and quirky moments, the story is also about self-acceptance and familial relationship. As Debbie steps out of her comfort zone, she has to navigate between new peers and the family bubble. Things eventually fall apart and the dark issues surrounding the family history and mental health are uncovered. The results are returned almost immediately as we are selecting from a materialized view, which performs much better than a simple view. Snowflake: The Definitive Guide” written by Joyce Kay Avila, a certified Snowflake and Data Superhero with more than 25 years of experience as a business and technology leader. She is currently the Snowflake practice manager for a Snowflake partner consulting firm. The rest of the book is just a series of events in the lives of Debbie’s bipolar mother and depressed uncle. Debbie herself may or may not have mental health issues, but the topic is treated with such disdain and scorn that it’s hard to say where either Nealon comes down on it. It's disturbingly possible that she's on the side of the people who coined the snowflake [derogatory] version of the title.Debbie isn’t the only funny one. She comes home drunk, and her Uncle Billy gives her one glance and tells her he needs to teach her how to drink. Billy takes her to the local pub, and the lessons are hilarious. This is a quirky story laced with serious themes.

The output of SHOW DATABASES would show retention_time as zero, indicating that there is no time travel storage for this database, and also the options column would show TRANSIENT as the option, which essentially means that there will be no fail-safe storage for this database. The story revolves around Debbie, the narrator, who is embarking on her university years. She’s leaving the dairy farm for the sophisticated Trinity College in Dublin. This is a coming-of-age story in that Debbie has been protected at the farm, with little city involvement. She’s intimidated by not only moving to university, but also navigating the big city. This is the story of her finding her place in the world, learning what other lifestyles there are other than dairy farming.CREATE TRANSIENT TABLE customers_trans AS AS SELECT * FROM customers WHERE TRY_TO_NUMBER(postal_code) IS NULL;

But Debbie’s life is changing. Earning a place at Trinity College Dublin, she commutes to her classes a few days a week. Outside the sheltered bubble of her childhood for the first time, Debbie finds herself both overwhelmed and disappointed by her fellow students and the pace and anonymity of city life. While the familiarity of the farm offers comfort, Debbie still finds herself pulling away from it. Yet just as she begins to ponder the possibilities the future holds, a resurgence of strange dreams raises her fears that she may share Maeve’s fate. Then a tragic accident upends the family’s equilibrium, and Debbie discovers her next steps may no longer be hers to choose. The following example DDL statement will be executed to create a table called CUSTOMERS in Snowflake: CREATE TABLE customers ( If I haven’t earned the title of depression, then neither has she. Because she is a lot less miserable than I am. Or she certainly ought to be.”

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Every database in Snowflake will always have a public schema that is automatically created upon database creation. Additionally, under every database, you will also find an additional schema called the information schema. The information schema implements the SQL 92 standard information schema and adds additional information specific to Snowflake. The purpose of the information schema is to act as a data dictionary containing metadata that you can query to find information such as all the tables in the system, all columns along with their data types, and more. It is possible to add many additional schemas under a given database, which can help you organize your tables in a meaningful structure. In this article, we list free resources and tools to help you learn the nuts & bolts of Snowflake. Courses & modules Snowflake Documentation