Stairway to Snowflake Level 1 - An Introduction to Snowflake
Get an overview of Snowflake in this level, one of the fastest growing data warehouse platforms in the world.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2021-02-17)
11,677 reads
Reeves Smith
Stairway to Snowflake Level 2 – Create a Snowflake Account
In this next level of the Stairway to Snowflake, we look at the considerations for creating an account and how to set one up.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2021-05-24)
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Stairway to Snowflake Level 3 – Configure Snowflake with Your Cloud Account
Learn how you can configure a Snowflake account in your cloud database and load data.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2021-12-01)
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Stairway to Snowflake Level 4 - Introducing Snowsight, Snowflake’s Web UI
This next level of the Stairway to Snowflake looks at the Snowsight UI and what you can accomplish with it.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2024-10-23)
1,690 reads
Stairway to Snowflake Level 5 - Using Snowflake with SnowSQL and Visual Studio Code
Snowflake has its own CLI tool: SnowSQL. In this level of the Stairway Series learn how to work with this dialect in Snowflake and Visual Studio Code.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2024-11-20)
1,728 reads
Stairway to Snowflake Level 6 - Creating and Cloning Snowflake Databases
In this next level of the Stairway to Snowflake, learn about creating and dropping databases, with some options for cloning from different sources.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2025-01-15)
2,407 reads
Stairway to Snowflake Level 7 - Snowflake Tables
In this next level of the Stairway to Snowflake we examine the wide variety of table types that exist in the platform.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2025-05-21)
1,603 reads
Stairway to Biml Level 6 - Programming with Metadata
In this next level of the Stairway to Biml, learn how metadata makes your Biml code more efficient and helpful in generating packages.
2024-02-14 (first published: 2016-11-09)
4,630 reads
Stairway to Biml Level 5 - Biml Language Elements
In the next level of the Stairway to Biml, we breakdown the various elements in a Biml file to help you understand what parts of the files are used to control the package generation.
2014-07-02
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