Snowflake Glossary

Unload = Export

Data Warehouse = Snowflake is a cloud based data storage repository, optimised for analysis.

Warehouse = A virtual server. For CPU, memory, etc

Snowpark = Development libraries. Often used when building pipelines.

Snowsight = The Gui

Columnar = internal data storage method, where each data column has its own table.

Account = Typically, company membership credentials.

Schema = Catalogue of related items within a database.

Tag = Alias

Time travel = Retrieve ‘old’ data from up to 90 days ago.

Multi cluster = More than one warehouse linked to the same data.

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