Featured resource
2026 Tech Forecast
2026 Tech Forecast

Stay ahead of what’s next in tech with predictions from 1,500+ business leaders, insiders, and Pluralsight Authors.

Get these insights
  • Course

Working with Semi-structured Data with Snowflake

Snowflake offers full support for semi-structured data. This course will teach you how to apply schema on read, loading, and writing to semi-structured file formats, working with the variant data type to interpret semi-structured fields and more.

Intermediate
1h 37m
(17)

Created by Warner Chaves

Last Updated Dec 02, 2024

Course Thumbnail
  • Course

Working with Semi-structured Data with Snowflake

Snowflake offers full support for semi-structured data. This course will teach you how to apply schema on read, loading, and writing to semi-structured file formats, working with the variant data type to interpret semi-structured fields and more.

Intermediate
1h 37m
(17)

Created by Warner Chaves

Last Updated Dec 02, 2024

Get started today

Access this course and other top-rated tech content with one of our business plans.

Try this course for free

Access this course and other top-rated tech content with one of our individual plans.

This course is included in the libraries shown below:

  • Cloud
  • Data
What you'll learn

The Snowflake Cloud Data Platform has full support for semi-structured data stored in formats such as JSON, XML, parquet, and more. In this course, Working with Semi-structured Data with Snowflake, you’ll learn to load, write, and query these data formats that are very common in data engineering projects.

First, you’ll explore Snowflake’s supported semi-structured file formats and the powerful and flexible variant data type. Next, you’ll discover how to load and write in popular formats such as JSON, parquet, and more. Finally, you’ll learn how to use Snowflake’s SQL implementation and built-in functions for querying semi-structured data.

When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of working with semi-structured data to apply on your next data engineering project.

Working with Semi-structured Data with Snowflake
Intermediate
1h 37m
(17)
Table of contents

About the author
Warner Chaves - Pluralsight course - Working with Semi-structured Data with Snowflake
Warner Chaves
35 courses 4.6 author rating 708 ratings

Warner is a SQL Server Certified Master, MVP, and Principal Consultant at Pythian. He manages clients in many industries and leads a talented team that maintains and innovates with their data solutions. When he's not working in Ottawa, Ontario, he can be found in his home country of Costa Rica.

2025 Forrester Wave™ names Pluralsight as a Leader among tech skills dev platforms

See how our offering and strategy stack up.

forrester wave report