Snowflake tutorials¶

To explore the tutorials listed later, you must have a Snowflake account and a user with the required roles (ACCOUNTADMIN and SYSADMIN) and access to a virtual warehouse:

• If you have signed up for a trial account, the trial account user has the required roles and a virtual warehouse that you can use for these tutorials.

• Otherwise, if you use another account to explore these tutorials, you must sign in as a user that has was the required roles and that can use a virtual warehouse.

Snowflake provides the following tutorials:

• For new users, Snowflake in 20 minutes. This is a simple tutorial in which you use SnowSQL (the Snowflake command-line client) to learn about key concepts and tasks.

• For tutorials that are available with a pre-loaded Snowsight template worksheet, see the following topics:

  • Load and query sample data using SQL

  • Load data from cloud storage: Amazon S3

  • Load data from cloud storage: Microsoft Azure

  • Load data from cloud storage: Google Cloud Storage

• For tutorials on bulk loading, consider:

  • Bulk Loading from a Local File System

  • Bulk Loading from Amazon S3

• To explore semi-structured data, consider:

  • JSON Basics

  • Loading JSON Data into a Relational Table

  • Loading and Unloading Parquet Data

• To explore security and user creation, see the following tutorial:

  • Create users and grant roles