Snowflake is like that friend who's always got something new up their sleeve! Snowflake is all about staying up-to-date and cool, regularly spicing up its lineup of awesome features to keep up with the changing times in the world of data. So, in this blog...
There are several features in Snowflake that contribute to your environment's performance and scalability. Two of the most important in my experience have been micro-partitions and clustering. In short, micro-partitions are the fundamental storage units of Snowflake, and clustering is a feature that organizes data...
The Day Before: Bringing our Snowflake Data into Tableau As the week began, we entered the development stage of our big intern project. My role thus far has been preparing for development by creating wireframes for the new dashboards. For this project, we used a Snowflake-held data...
As modern applications expand in complexity, effectively managing workflows can become a significant challenge. AWS Step Functions provides a comprehensive solution for orchestrating multi-step workflows in the cloud. Whether it's invoking Lambda functions in Task states, separating branches of execution with Parallel states or running...
Establishing customer trust and satisfaction is crucial for any business, and observability plays a major role in achieving this goal. In fact, it is one of the top trends in the data landscape. To enable more observability and measurability of data workloads, Snowflake has been...
April showers bring may flowers, but what do may flowers bring? Pilgrims! Never figured out if I should be telling that joke in April or November for Thanksgiving, but I figure that it’s timely enough either way! We had some great blog content this month. I’ll go...
In previous articles in this series, we have demonstrated how to set up Azure Functions to leverage Snowpark for Python. This allows us to interact with Snowflake from an Azure Function, unlocking a wide range of opportunities for scripting activity. In this article, we will focus...
Clocking in at 28 blog entries this month, March was easily one of the most jam-packed months we've had on the InterWorks blog. I feel like I've written that exact same intro several times since I took over compiling these monthly roundups, but the number...
Snowflake recently held their 2023 Data for Breakfast series in Australia. InterWorks was a black diamond partner for two events in the series (Perth and Melbourne), and I was lucky enough to attend both of these events and present on behalf of our amazing company...
If you've ever tried running SQL queries against Snowflake from an AWS Lambda function using Python, chances are you may have run into an error message like this: ⛔️ No module named 'snowflake' Fear not, there's a simple solution you can apply in no time. In this...
Welcome back to our mini-series on Snowflake External Functions with Azure. Before we proceed, please read the previous post on how to set up these functions and how Snowflake interacts with Azure: A Definitive Guide to Setting up Snowflake External Functions with Azure Why Choose an...
As you may be aware, Snowflake has a cool feature which allows its standard functionality to be extended through the use of external functions. Among several other capabilities, this includes the ability to leverage Azure Functions within Snowflake. This unlocks a whole new realm of...
There are several ways to develop, debug and deploy serverless applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). One of my favorite tools to achieve this locally is the AWS Toolkit for VSCode because it streamlines the application development process in a simple and pain-free manner. For...
February may be the shortest month of the year, but it's definitely been one of the busiest here at InterWorks! There's 28 days in the shortest month, but we've got a whopping 25 blog posts here for your review. You'll notice that there's a new...
To stream/ingest data automatically from an AWS S3 bucket into Snowflake using native functionality, Snowpipe is likely the solution you're seeking. We do have two related posts you can explore for related content: Configuring Storage Integrations Between Snowflake and AWS S3 Automated Ingestion from Azure...
To ingest data stored in AWS S3 into Snowflake, you can use either direct COPY INTO statements or a Snowpipe for automation. Both options require a Snowflake object called an external stage to connect Snowflake to AWS. It's recommended to use Storage Integrations for authentication...
This article is builds on the following two previous articles: Intro to Azure Functions and Snowpark: Populating Snowflake Control Tables Using Azure App Settings to Authenticate Snowflake with Python The above articles do a great job at building a foundation for building Azure Functions that leverage...
New year, new me! Tired of hearing that one yet? It's the time of year to start (and potentially abandon) your New Year's Resolutions. If you're kinda over the whole trend, I recommend this video from CGP Grey that replaces a single resolution with "Themes"...
Earlier this month, my colleague Jason Hoehn published the following article: Intro to Azure Functions and Snowpark: Populating Snowflake Control Tables Jason's article did a great job at building a foundation for building Azure Functions that leverage Snowpark for Python to interact with Snowflake. However, the focus...
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