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In step 3, when the Parquet file is loaded into the external table, the table rows have all the field names captured, as shown in step 4. But in step 5, when the CSV-formatted file is loaded into the external table, there are dummy column names created by Snowflake, as can be seen in step 6. This is because a Parquet file has metadata stored inside the file, while a CSV file does not have that metadata embedded in it. This is a major difference and would usually require additional steps as shown in step 7 to generate meaningful column names, plus the casting of data types. There's more… this is another contemporary, coming of age tale which follows debbie, an 18 year old who lives on a dairy farm as she navigates her 1st year at university, while also trying to handle her eccentric and troubled mother and uncle. if you know me you know i love a coming of age story, so this premise was right up my street. the writing was beautiful and lyrical but also raw, perfectly capturing the mindset of what it’s like to be a young woman figuring out life and trying to survive university (perfect for fans of sally rooney and naosie dolan in that regard). it also had a small magical realism element related to dreams which i definitely think added something unique to the story, even though i do wish it was developed a bit more. i also really enjoyed the irish slang in the dialogue and the exploration of some of the folklore, i found it all so interesting to read about! nealon also touches on several themes in this book too, like mental illness, family dynamics, friendship, identity, alcoholism, the pressure of university, and more. Snowflake Documentation is a go-to resource for users planning to learn Snowflake from scratch. The documentation provides conceptual overviews, tutorials, and a detailed reference for all supported SQL commands, operations and functions.

I can’t imagine someone going through life without grasping the concept of the iconic six-armed snow crystal,’ I say.First, thank you GR friend Peter for reviewing “Snowflake” by Louise Nealon and gushing over her honest representation of the country/farm folk in Kildare County in Ireland. According to Peter, who hails from that area, there is little literature reflecting the lives of the people in that area. One main reason I read is to learn about something I did not previously been acquainted. I wanted to give this novel a shot because I was very curious. My bias against the first-person POV is mainly aesthetic. However, there are some practical reasons for my ire. The main one is that this choice of POV makes it even more difficult than it is already to keep from conflating ‘author’ and ‘protagonist’. Like, conceptually I know that MC Debbie and author Louise Nealon are two distinct entities and may indeed be radically different in every way. However, a bildungsroman-ish novel with clear autobiographical elements (Debbie’s arc is all about a country girl leaving home to study at Trinity; Nealon’s bio states that she’s from a farm in Kildare and studied English in Trinners) and a first-person POV? Let’s just say I’m not giving ‘Debbie’ much benefit of the doubt when she speaks like a tit in her early twenties. But Debbie’s life is changing. Earning a place at Trinity College Dublin, she commutes to her classes a few days a week. Outside the sheltered bubble of her childhood for the first time, Debbie finds herself both overwhelmed and disappointed by her fellow students and the pace and anonymity of city life. While the familiarity of the farm offers comfort, Debbie still finds herself pulling away from it. Yet just as she begins to ponder the possibilities the future holds, a resurgence of strange dreams raises her fears that she may share Maeve’s fate. Then a tragic accident upends the family’s equilibrium, and Debbie discovers her next steps may no longer be hers to choose. Though seemingly unable to escape comparisons with Sally Rooney, this book is in an entirely different register from Rooney's work. While Rooney is interested in philosophical questions about our place in the world and how relationships work, Nealon's work is much grittier and down-to-earth. This is not a slight on either author: I've really enjoyed both of their work, but I think the similarities between them are superficial. Though Nealon's novel begins with Debbie going to university, this story is rooted in the world of a rural dairy farm. The world of Dublin and of Trinity college are secondary to the beating heart of the novel, which is Debbie's immediate family: her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. The family is loving, but struggles to function: Billy blames himself for his mother's death, and drinks heavily, while Maeve seems constantly on the point of breakdown. Debbie also uses alcohol to cope: it's all she's learnt. Though she was alienated at school, she also feels dislocated in university, and struggles to find her place, though she befriends the privileged but depressed Xanthe. This book is also an indictment of the struggling mental health systems and of clueless therapists, as characters try to seek help and meet bureacratic walls.

As you progress through the chapters, you will leverage Snowflake's capabilities to process a series of SQL statements using tasks to build data pipelines and find out how you can create modern data solutions and pipelines designed to provide high performance and scalability. You will also get to grips with creating role hierarchies, adding custom roles, and setting default roles for users before covering advanced topics such as data sharing, cloning, and performance optimization.Since a standard view executes its definition at runtime, it can take some time to execute. If there is a complex query that is commonly used, it can be created as a materialized view. A materialized view looks similar to a standard view, but it doesn't run the query in its definition at runtime. Rather, when a materialized view is created, it runs the query right away and stores the results. The advantage is that when the materialized view is queried, it does not need to execute but can retrieve the stored results immediately, providing a performance boost. A materialized view will however incur additional maintenance and storage costs since every time the underlying table is changed, the view recalculates the results and updates the storage. There's more… When a friend shares that she has depression, Debbie’s response is honest and familiar in its naivete: "I want to shake her. I want to slap some sense into her beautiful face. I want to tell her that she can’t be depressed." Stars | SNOWFLAKE BY LOUISE NEALON is the coming-of-age story you (probably) didn’t know you needed (or maybe you already knew). If you’ve been following my stories, you’d know how much i’d been taken by it - and it’s all for good reasons! If I haven’t earned the title of depression, then neither has she. Because she is a lot less miserable than I am. Or she certainly ought to be.” If Audrey had kept quiet and continued to drink at home, people would still have sent their kids to piano lessons. Audrey’s problem was admitting that she had a problem, and the problem was with alcohol, the one thing everyone loved.”

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