Getting Started with Snowflake: Using the Snowflake Data Platform

Snowflake is a cloud-native managed data platform for big data storage and processing that does not require any hardware or software installation maintenance or upgrades and can be connected to in a variety of ways. In this course learn how to set up a Snowflake free trial account log into it and navigate the classic Snowflake UI. Next practice creating and monitoring virtual warehouses and executing DDL operations. Finally discover how to create databases and tables load data into tables instantiate file format objects and query tables. Upon completion youll be able to list features and use cases of Snowflake differentiate Snowflake editions and utilize virtual warehouses and databases to separate data and compute.