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Data management in Snowflake

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Data management in Snowflake

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- We've now covered a wide range of capabilities in Snowflake. We've also talked about the importance of balancing the technical needs of a database against business needs through practices such as security and governance. It's now time to talk about how this actually works in practice by spending some time talking about how we might go about running and managing our database. It's hard to do this from a theoretical standpoint. Instead, let's work through a simplified scenario and imagine we're setting up our own database in Snowflake. We'll keep this general. But we'll look at what decisions you should make and how to work through all of them to arrive at a setup that can help you achieve your aims. Let's start from the beginning. Our journey starts with defining our business requirements. You need to ask yourself crucial questions such as what kind of data you'll be storing? Is it structured, semi-structured, or both? What's the estimated volume of the data? And because all…

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