Snowflake for Beginners

Snowflake for Beginners – Describe A Table

Describe A Table Create Table Of Superheroes – Create a table called SUPERHEROES. If it already exists, replace it. CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE SUPERHEROES ( – Column called ID allowing up to five characters “ID” VARCHAR(5), – Column called NAME allowing up to 100 characters “NAME” VARCHAR(100), – Column called ALTER_EGO allowing up to 100 …

Snowflake for Beginners – Drop Column

Drop Column Create Table Of Superheroes – Create a table called SUPERHEROES. If it already exists, replace it. CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE SUPERHEROES ( – Column called ID allowing up to five characters “ID” VARCHAR(5), – Column called NAME allowing up to 100 characters “NAME” VARCHAR(100), – Column called ALTER_EGO allowing up to 100 characters …

Snowflake for Beginners – Query DESCRIBE TABLE like a table

Query DESCRIBE TABLE like a table   DESCRIBE TABLE is a powerful tool for understanding the structure of a table. However, in Snowflake the output of DESCRIBE TABLE is not treated like a regular table (i.e. can be manipulated using SELECT). To query DESCRIBE TABLE as a regular table we have to first run it, then run a SELECT query on the last query …

Snowflake for Beginners – Rename Column

Rename Column Create Table Of Superheroes – Create a table called SUPERHEROES. If it already exists, replace it. CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE SUPERHEROES ( – Column called ID allowing up to five characters “ID” VARCHAR(5), – Column called NAME allowing up to 100 characters “NAME” VARCHAR(100), – Column called ALTER_EGO allowing up to 100 characters …

Snowflake for Beginners – Undelete A Table

Undelete A Table Create Table Of Superheroes – Create a table called SUPERHEROES. If it already exists, replace it. CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE SUPERHEROES ( – Column called ID allowing up to five characters “ID” VARCHAR(5), – Column called NAME allowing up to 100 characters “NAME” VARCHAR(100), – Column called ALTER_EGO allowing up to 100 …

Snowflake for Beginners – View A Column’s Comments

View A Column’s Comments Create Table Of Superheroes With Comments Column comments concern a particular column, while table comments are about the entire table. – Create a table called SUPERHEROES. If it already exists, replace it. CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE SUPERHEROES ( – Column called ID allowing up to five characters with a comment. “ID” …

Snowflake for Beginners – View A Table’s Comments

View A Table’s Comments Create Table Of Superheroes With Comments Column comments concern a particular column, while table comments are about the entire table. – Create a table called SUPERHEROES. If it already exists, replace it. CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE SUPERHEROES ( – Column called ID allowing up to five characters with a comment. “ID” …