Learning Snowflake SQL and Scripting: Generate, Retrieve, and Automate Snowflake Data
by: Alan Beaulieu (Author)
Publisher finelybook 出版社: O’Reilly Media; (November 7, 2023)
Language 语言: English
Print Length 页数: 398 pages
ISBN-10: 109814032X
ISBN-13: 9781098140328
Book Description
To help you on the path to becoming a Snowflake pro, this concise yet comprehensive guide reviews fundamentals and best practices for Snowflake’s SQL and Scripting languages. Developers and data professionals will learn how to generate, modify, and query data in the Snowflake relational database management system as well as how to apply analytic functions for reporting.
Author Alan Beaulieu also shows you how to create scripts, stored functions, and stored procedures to return data sets using Snowflake Scripting. This book is ideal whether you’re new to databases and need to run queries or reports against a Snowflake database, or transitioning from databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, or MySQL to cloud-based platforms.
With this book, you will:
Generate and modify Snowflake data using INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
Query data in Snowflake using SELECT, including joining multiple tables, using subqueries, and grouping
Apply analytic functions for performing subtotals, grand totals, row comparisons, and other reporting functionality
Build scripts combining SQL statements with looping, if-then-else, and exception handling
Learn how to build stored procedures and functions
Use stored procedures to return data sets
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