@SnowflakeDB Product Marketing, former @Tableau, @UCF Alumnus, former @UCF_Football Long Snapper

Seattle, WA
Joined July 2009
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Blake relives 2013 season, the Fiesta Bowl, and so much more. Can’t wait to have the 2013 squad back!
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Snowflake’s Document AI in private preview isn’t only just for documents in Snowflake. You can do inference on files in these S3-compatible storage devices too!
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Of course, you can run SQL queries on files like parquet, avro, orc, csv, and json stored in S3-compatible storage using External Tables.
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#ApacheSpark reading #ApacheIceberg table created by @SnowflakeDB An early first step which should give you a sense where we're headed. More to come!
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And files are stored in the bucket I provide, which in this case is S3
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I just published "Snowflake tables on Cloudflare R2". When replicating data to multiple regions, egress costs can be quite significant. So this is exciting: Now @SnowflakeDB can use @Cloudflare R2 as external storage for tables— featuring 0 egress fees❄️ medium.com/@hoffa/snowflake-…
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Scott Teal retweeted
1/Excellent presentation how #SnowflakeDB is implementing #ApacheIceberg, TL;DR, the data is saved as parquet in the user Cloud storage, but for efficiency reason, the metadata is generated on the fly when you connect your tool to the Snowflake Catalog youtube.com/watch?v=Kr-Vzvky…
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Interested in AI and data-led decisions? Check out our latest Success Story to learn how @hyperfinity + @SnowflakeDB are helping businesses use machine learning to make decisions related to areas like smarter supply chains, optimized pricing, and more: bit.ly/3Y61tGj
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Neat story of a migration from Hive tables of JSON to Iceberg tables of Parquet at @Shopify Thanks for sharing, Marc! youtu.be/nJBBw-xnLU8 #ApacheIceberg
Today on the Trino blog, we recap the Trino Summit talk from Marc Laforet at @Shopify. He explains why and how Shopify used Trino to migrate from some old, custom, and poorly-optimized table formats to Iceberg, resulting in huge performance improvements. trino.io/blog/2022/12/09/tri…
Sharing some personal favs from day 1 of #SnowflakeBUILD (in no particular order) First, a @felipehoffa sighting! Here's an interesting convo with a few engineering and product leaders across a few different parts of @SnowflakeDB snowflake.com/build/agenda?a…
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Last but not least, STREAMING This session provides a nice overview and use cases for various ingestion methods with Snowflake. There’s also a demo of the Kafka Connector with Snowpipe Streaming snowflake.com/build/agenda?a…
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But these are just my favorites! There are many more sessions available on-demand, and more streaming live tomorrow snowflake.com/build/agenda/
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If you consume data science content on the reg, chances are you’ve come across some of @thedataprof‘s content. I love his stuff, including this session where he shows how to build an ML app using @Streamlit snowflake.com/build/agenda?a…
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…and here’s the link to the app if you want to explore! simple-prediction.streamlit.…
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