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

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Query Primer

Chapter 2. Filtering

Chapter 3. Joins

Chapter 4. Working with Sets

Chapter 5. Creating and Modifying Data

Chapter 6. Data Generation, Conversion, and Manipulation

Chapter 7. Grouping and Aggregates

Chapter 8. Subqueries

Chapter 9. From Clause Revisited

Chapter 10. Conditional Logic

Chapter 11. Transactions

Chapter 12. Views

Chapter 13. Metadata

Chapter 14. Window Functions

Chapter 15. Snowflake Scripting Language

Chapter 16. Building Stored Procedures

Chapter 17. Table Functions

Chapter 18. Semistructured Data

Appendix A. Sample Database

Appendix B. Solutions to Exercises

About the Author

Alan Beaulieu has been designing, building, and implementing custom database applications for over 25 years. He is the author of Learning SQL and Mastering Oracle SQL, and has written an online course on SQL for the University of California. He currently runs his own consulting company that specializes in database design and development in the fields of Financial Services and Telecommunications. Alan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research from the Cornell University School of Engineering.