Migrating to Snowflake? Here Is What You Need To Know

You’ve tried it out, and decided to make the move to Snowflake. But now what? Where should you start?

When in 2020 Snowflake burst into the stock market with a boom, I started noticing a growing interest on the job market for professionals with Snowflake experience to help with migrations. Snowflake was no longer the “dark horse”, and companies started to embrace it as a natural alternative to other long well established technologies, like Azure DW or Amazon Redshift.

So, maybe you’re one of those companies who finally decided to take the leap and move to Snowflake, and now you’re looking at this “almost the same, but not really the same” technology and you’re not really figuring out where to start.

This article is for you! Here is what you need to know and what you need to watch out for when starting your journey into Snowflake.

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