Snowflake DB Cool Features – Automatic Query Optimization

This is the final installment of my ongoing series on the Top 10 Cool Features in the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse:

#1 Automatic Query Optimization. No Tuning!

As a long time data architect, and not a DBA, this is my favorite part of Snowflake. I do not have to worry about query performance at all. It is all handled “auto-magically” via a dynamic optimization engine in our cloud services layer. I just model, load, and query the data.

See the rest of the post here: Automatic Query Optimization. No Tuning!

Model On!

Kent

The Data Warrior

P.S. If you have questions about any specific features in Snowflake, please let me know in the comments or send me an email at kent.graziano@snowflake.net.

P.P.S. I am considering making a few short videos about Snowflake – what features should I start with?