Snowflake
Connect a Snowflake account, read its usage-based cost model, schedule warehouses off-hours, and work the twenty native Snowflake recommendation rules.
4 lessons. 1 quiz.
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Connecting Snowflake
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to connect a Snowflake account as a standalone connection, choose between key-pair JWT and PAT authentication, and predict which of the nine resource types appear where.
The credit-based cost model
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to explain how Snowflake spend is computed from credits and edition rates, distinguish compute cost from storage cost, and reconcile ZopNight's figure against the customer's own account-usage views.
Scheduling warehouses
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to put a Snowflake warehouse on a ZopNight schedule, explain how that composes with Snowflake's own auto-suspend, and identify which Snowflake objects are not schedulable.
The Snowflake rule set
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to navigate the twenty Snowflake rules RC-2100 to RC-2119, tell the five priced rules from the fifteen advisory ones, and prioritise them by likely impact.
Module quiz.
Take it once the lessons are done.