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Snowflake's ability to eliminate data silos and run workloads from a single platform creates opportunities to democratize data analytics, allowing users at all levels within an organization to make data-driven decisions. Whether you're an IT professional working in data warehousing or data science, a business analyst or technical manager, or an aspiring data professional wanting to get more hands-on experience with the Snowflake platform, this book is for you.You'll learn how Snowflake users can build modern integrated data applications and develop new revenue streams based on data. Using hands-on SQL examples, you'll also discover how the Snowflake Data Cloud helps you accelerate data science by avoiding replatforming or migrating data unnecessarily.You'll be able to:Efficiently capture, store, and process large amounts of data at an amazing speedIngest and transform real-time data feeds in both structured and semistructured formats and deliver meaningful data insights within minutesUse Snowflake Time Travel and zero-copy cloning to produce a sensible data recovery strategy that balances system resilience with ongoing storage costsSecurely share data and reduce or eliminate data integration costs by accessing ready-to-query datasets available in the Snowflake Marketplace