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SnowPro Advanced Data Engineer: Performance Optimization

Maximize your Snowflake data platform's performance with advanced optimization techniques. This course will teach you expert techniques for identifying and resolving bottlenecks, leveraging caching, and monitoring data pipelines.

Intermediate
1h 4m
(12)

Created by Pinal Dave

Last Updated Mar 28, 2024

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SnowPro Advanced Data Engineer: Performance Optimization

Maximize your Snowflake data platform's performance with advanced optimization techniques. This course will teach you expert techniques for identifying and resolving bottlenecks, leveraging caching, and monitoring data pipelines.

Intermediate
1h 4m
(12)

Created by Pinal Dave

Last Updated Mar 28, 2024

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What you'll learn

Optimizing the performance of your Snowflake data platform is crucial for ensuring the efficiency and scalability of your data-driven operations.

In this course, SnowPro Advanced Data Engineer: Performance Optimization, you'll gain the ability to become a Snowflake performance optimization expert.

First, you'll explore techniques for troubleshooting underperforming queries, including identifying bottlenecks, outlining telemetry, increasing efficiency, and identifying root causes.

Next, you'll discover how to configure Snowflake solutions for the best performance, including scaling out vs. scaling up, understanding virtual warehouse properties, optimizing micro-partitions and clustering, leveraging materialized views, and utilizing search and query acceleration services.

Finally, you'll learn how to outline and use caching features, as well as monitor continuous data pipelines, including Snowpipe, tasks, and streams.

When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of Snowflake performance optimization needed to design, implement, and maintain highly efficient and scalable data solutions on the Snowflake platform.

SnowPro Advanced Data Engineer: Performance Optimization
Intermediate
1h 4m
(12)
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