Using Snowflake? Don’t Make These Expensive Mistakes

The paradigm of pay-per-use is amazing, but it should come with a massive red sticker: “Use with Care!”

Since the beginning of (database) times, databases have always been there for us, up 24/7, eagerly waiting to serve the next query. I am pretty sure that if we were to add all the database idle time through the last decades, we would have centuries worth of availability where the database was just doing…nothing! What a waste… right?