Snowflake Supplemental Documentation

Streamline your Snowflake journey with comprehensive documentation and learning resources

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user guide

Connecting to Snowflake

Learn about the applications and tools that you can use to access Snowflake

user guide

Working with Virtual Warehouses

Learn how to create and manage warehouses, which are used to process queries

user guide

Databases, Tables and Views

Learn how to create and manage databases, tables, and views for storing and accessing your data

user guide

Load Data into Snowflake

Learn about the different options for getting data into Snowflake and setting up a pipeline to transform your data

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Getting Started

Basic information and instructions for first-time users of Snowflake.
Getting a Trial Account
Snowflake in 20 Minutes
Key Concepts and Architecture
Connecting to Snowflake
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User Guides

Instructions on performing various Snowflake operations.
Understanding & Using Time Travel
Working with Temporary and Transient Tables
Working with Materialized Views
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Developer Guides

Write applications that extend Snowflake, act as a client, or act as an integrating component.
Snowflake Native App Framework
Snowpark API
User-defined Functions (UDFs) and Stored Procedures
Drivers
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Reference

Reference for SQL commands, SQL functions, SQL classes, scripting, data types, views, and other areas
SQL Commands
SQL Functions
SQL Classes
Snowflake Scripting
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Tutorials

Tutorials to help you learn the basics of using Snowflake
Snowflake in 20 Minutes
Bulk Loading from a Local File System
Bulk Loading from Amazon S3 Using COPY
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Releases

Overview of the new features, enhancements, and important fixes introduced in the most recent releases of Snowflake.
New features
Behavior change log
Snowflake connector, driver, and library monthly releases
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What’s New

Overview of the new features, enhancements, and important behavior changes introduced in the most recent releases of Snowflake

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Recent Product Updates

generally available

On November 1st, 2023

SNOWFLAKE Database Roles

With this release, we are pleased to announce the general availability of database roles. Database roles are entities within a database to which privileges on securable objects in the same database can be granted and revoked. Database roles are similar to account-level roles except for their scope.

preview

On October 6th, 2023

Monitoring Credit Usage with Budgets

With this release, we are pleased to announce the preview of Budgets which enables account-level monitoring and notification of Snowflake credit usage for a group of specific Snowflake objects.

preview

On September 28th, 2023

Streamlit in Snowflake

preview

On October 4th, 2023

Limited Trial Listings for the Snowflake Marketplace

generally available

On September 19th, 2023

Cross-platform Support for Snowpipe Auto-Ingest

generally available

On September 19th, 2023

Amazon EventBridge Support for Snowpipe Auto-Ingest

Announcements

Stay informed and discover the latest updates, improvements, and enhancements

Behavior Changes

Behavior changes that may impact your usage

Deprecated Features

Features and operating systems/programming languages that are deprecated or pending deprecation

Performance Improvements

All features that can improve performance and make queries run faster

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