There is an immense joy of altering a table without having to do a painful full data reload. Especially if youโve worked with traditional databases, you know this feeling well. Add a column, and suddenly youโre waiting hours, worrying about data integrity, backups, and worst of all, downtime. Snowflake makes this much easier. You can... Continue Reading →
Snowflake as a Platform โ Workspaces, AI Agents & Developer Magic
โData isnโt just queried anymoreโitโs built, orchestrated, and spoken to.โThat was the vibe at the recent Snowflake event I attended. Yes, the GenAI and performance improvements were awesome.But something bigger is happening: Snowflake is becoming a true developer-first data platform. This post highlights five major updates that bring engineering workflows, open-source comfort, and intelligent automation... Continue Reading →
Snowflake Sequences Gone? Hereโs How to Survive Without Breaking Your Data Pipelines
If you've been working with Snowflake Sequences, you know theyโre the go-to tool for generating unique IDs in an ordered fashion. Clean, simple, reliable. Untilโฆ they arenโt. Imagine waking up one fine morning, running your ETL pipeline, and suddenly realizing: your sequence is gone. Maybe the object was dropped during a cleanup, maybe a migration... Continue Reading →
Migration, Models, and Monitoring โ Snowflake’s AI-Powered Data Stack
Snowflakeโs AI innovations arenโt just about fancy queriesโthey're making enterprise workflows smarter, BI models easier, and data science more accessible. Letโs explore three underrated but powerful features from the latest announcements that deserve your attention. ๐ Snowconvert AI: Migration, Now With Intelligence We all know that migrating from legacy systems like Oracle, Teradata, or Netezza... Continue Reading →
Snowflake Gets Smarter โ Gen2 Warehouses & Cortex AISQL
โThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.โ โ Alan KayAnd Snowflake? Theyโre not just predicting the future of dataโtheyโre building it. Recently, at a Snowflake event I attended, a wave of new announcements left me with a pleasant surprise. From AI-powered SQL to brainy warehouses that scale smarter than ever, Snowflake... Continue Reading →