Snowflake Essentials
Frank Bell, Snowflake Data Superhero, and SnowPro, joins us today to talk about his book “Snowflake Essentials: Getting Started with Big Data in the Cloud.” <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Snowflake-Essentials-Getting-Started-Cloud/dp/148427315X" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Snowflake Essentials: Getting Started with Big Data in the Cloud</a> by Frank Bell, Raj Chirumamilla, Bhaskar B. Joshi, Bjorn Lindstrom, Ruchi Soni, Sameer Videkar</li> <li><a href="https://snowcloud.com/about" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Snowflake Solutions</a></li> <li><a href="https://snowflakesolutions.net/what-is-snoptimizer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Snoptimizer</a> - Snowflake Cost, Security, and Performance Optimization - Coming Soon!</li> </ul> <p><strong>Thanks to our Sponsors:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Find Better Data Faster with Nomad Data. Visit <a href= "http://nomad-data.com" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">nomad-data.com</a></li> <li>Visit <a style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;" href="https://bit.ly/sb-data-skeptic" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Springboard</a><span style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> and use promo code DATASKEPTIC to receive a $750 discount</span></li> </ul>
Guest
Frank Bell: Frank Bell is a SnowPro, entrepreneur, and data thought leader and has been working with databases since 1994 when he first started with Oracle in the United States Air Force. He ran the consulting firm IT Strategists from 1999 to 2019 and built one of the fastest growing Snowflake practices in 2018 which was sold to Fairway Technologies and then acquired by Accenture. He now runs IT Strategists Cloud Products (ITS) and Snowflake Solutions which are focused on building Snowflake tools such as DQmation (data quality automation). He also leads the Accenture Snowflake West Market unit. He has lived, breathed, and eaten Snowflake since early 2018 and believes Snowflake and the data cloud are one of the top game-changing technologies of this decade.