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What is Snowflake and how does it work?

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What is Snowflake and how does it work?

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- Let's start off by understanding what Snowflake is and how its architecture works. Snowflake is a cutting edge cloud-based data platform introduced in 2012. It revolutionizes how businesses store and access data by providing secure and easy to use solutions. To explain what Snowflake is, I'll break this lesson down into two parts. Firstly, Snowflake's core innovations and then it's architecture. Snowflake's innovations like scalability, flexibility, and security have made it a popular platform. It's a fully managed service that supports all your data and scales to meet your needs today and in the future. It's easy to skip past some of those important terms I just used, so let's circle back and make sure you understand all of them. First, scalability refers to the ability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work or its potential to change to accommodate that growth. On the other hand, flexibility refers to the capacity of a system, network, or process to…

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