Snowflake: Loading and Querying Data

Bring your data to life in the cloud. In Snowflake: Loading and Querying Data, Greg Trzeciak walks you through the essential, beginner-friendly steps to get data into Snowflake and make it useful fast. You’ll explore simple ways to load files (like CSV, JSON, and Parquet), understand where that data lives, and practice reliable patterns for both one-time and ongoing ingestion. Along the way, you’ll pick up practical setup tips so you can follow the same steps in your own account with confidence. Once your data is in, you’ll learn how to ask it good questions. Greg guides you through the basics of querying—selecting, filtering, joining, and summarizing—plus handy techniques for working with semi-structured data. You’ll see how to keep things speedy and cost-aware by choosing the right compute, and how features like views and simple best practices make your work easy to share and maintain. By the end, you’ll have an end-to-end workflow: load cleanly, query clearly, and deliver answers your team can trust.