Helpful Snowflake Tutorials
August 25, 2026 · PowderInsights Team
The same pipeline built both ways, a migration path from task DAGs to Dynamic Tables, the refresh-mode gotchas that bite first projects, monitoring with DYNAMIC_TABLE_REFRESH_HISTORY, and where streams and tasks still win.
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dbt Projects on Snowflake went GA in November 2025. What you gain (Git in Snowsight, task scheduling, one fewer vendor), what you give up (Semantic Layer, Slim CI), and who should move.
Read moreAugust 25, 2026 · PowderInsights Team
When Gen2 warehouses and Adaptive Compute pay off, plus the classics: auto-suspend hygiene, right-sizing with WAREHOUSE_METERING_HISTORY, Query Acceleration, budgets and resource monitors, and Time Travel tuning.
Read moreAugust 25, 2026 · PowderInsights Team
Catalog options (Snowflake Open Catalog / Polaris, Glue, REST), read versus write paths, when Iceberg beats native tables, interop with Spark and Databricks readers, and a conversion walkthrough.
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