Instructor: Snowflake Northstar
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Create and manipulate Snowflake's core objects, such as virtual warehouses, databases, schemas, tables, and stages.
Use important Snowflake features and objects, such as time travel, cloning, resources monitors, UDFs, stored procedures, and Snowpark DataFrames.
Understand the basics of Snowflake’s capabilities for data engineering, generative AI, machine learning, and app development.
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After a very brief intro to the course, learners will create a free trial, open a worksheet, and query sample data. They’ll learn about scaling virtual warehouses and create a virtual warehouse to ingest Tasty Bytes data. They’ll learn about stages, databases, schemas, and tables. They’ll manipulate semi-structured data. They’ll also learn about the different Snowflake architectural layers.
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Learners will identify a recently introduced “error” in the data and use time travel to correct it. They’ll learn about permanent, transient, and temporary tables, and cloning. They’ll create resource monitors. They’ll create UDFs, a UDTF, and a SQL stored procedure. They’ll learn about role-based access, the VS Code extension, Snowpark DataFrames, and the Snowflake CLI.
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Learners will explore four Snowflake workloads: Data Engineering, Generative AI, Machine Learning, and Applications. After reviewing each workload, they’ll see one aspect of that workload in practice: for DE, ingesting streaming data with Snowpipe; for GenAI, using the Snowflake Cortex LLM function “Complete”; for ML, using Snowpark ML to create an XGBoost model and make predictions about a food truck’s location; and for apps, running a Streamlit app that shows us Tasty Bytes’ daily revenue. They will then learn about the Snowflake Data Cloud.
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Reviewed on Dec 15, 2024
Well-rounded introduction to Snowflake with helpful hands-on experience working with data and objects.
Reviewed on Jan 21, 2025
Fantastic introduction with a passionate, if quirky, host. I loved his enthusiasm and insight for Snowflake and hope to see more of his work in future courses.
Reviewed on Sep 7, 2024
Excellent course for overview of everything - produce more this time deeper into snowflake ml , genAI and data engineering
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This is a great question. We designed this course for those with absolutely no Snowflake knowledge, and very minimal SQL and Python knowledge, so we thought it would be more accurate to call it a beginner course than it would be to call it an intermediate course. But it's accurate to say that we expect you to come into the course with some knowledge, so it's not truly prerequisite-free.
For SQL, we don't teach you how to run a basic "SELECT column_name FROM table" query, and if you don't know that, this might move a bit too fast. But if you know that, and "WHERE" and "GROUP BY" and "ORDER BY," you're in decent shape on the SQL side. And on the Python side, if you're familiar with importing a library, if you know what a function is, if you know Python basics (you don't get overly nervous when you see a list), and if you have manipulated a dataframe, you should be good.
You should take comfort in the fact that we designed this for a wide range of data practitioners (data scientists, data engineers, and data app developers or people who aspire to one of those roles), so we really try not to assume that you know anything about what those functions do. (We don't want to dive into app jargon too fast, only to confuse data scientists who haven't built apps.) We tried hard to make the course accessible.
You can access all course content without paying (all videos, hands-on assignments, readings, etc.), except for the knowledge check quizzes. You also cannot get a Coursera certificate of completion without paying.
You can find developer resources at developers.snowflake.com, and our product documentation at docs.snowflake.com.
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