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Snowflake Weekly Challenges

Archives for December 2022

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Week 27 – Basic

It’s hard to keep up with new Snowflake features coming out left, right and center. Here’s one that’s created a lot of buzz in the community – EXCLUDE and RENAME. So simple, and yet so much time saved!

Start Up Code
create or replace table frosty_db.challenges.week27 
(
    icecream_id int,
    icecream_flavour varchar(15),
    icecream_manufacturer varchar(50),
    icecream_brand varchar(50),
    icecreambrandowner varchar(50),
    milktype varchar(15),
    region_of_origin varchar(50),
    recomendad_price number,
    wholesale_price number
);

insert into frosty_db.challenges.week27 values
    (1, 'strawberry', 'Jimmy Ice', 'Ice Co.', 'Food Brand Inc.', 'normal', 'Midwest', 7.99, 5),
    (2, 'vanilla', 'Kelly Cream Company', 'Ice Co.', 'Food Brand Inc.', 'dna-modified', 'Northeast', 3.99, 2.5),
    (3, 'chocolate', 'ChoccyCream', 'Ice Co.', 'Food Brand Inc.', 'normal', 'Midwest', 8.99, 5.5);

Take the start up code above, and write a SELECT * query that:

  1. Excludes milktype
  2. Renames icecreambrandowner to ice_cream_brand_owner

This one should only take 5 minutes!

Remember, if you want to participate:

  1. Sign up as a member of Frosty Friday. You can do this by clicking on the sidebar, and then going to ‘REGISTER‘
  2. Post your code to GitHub and make it publicly available (Check out our guide if you don’t know how to here)
  3. Post the URL in the comments of the challenge

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Week 26 – Intermediate

This week we’ll be looking at a feature that has just hit Preview Feature – Open :
Sending Email Notifications.

We’re asking you to use this feature in conjunction with linked tasks to create a very small chain while tackling 2 different subjects.

The Challenge

The assignment for this week is two-fold :

  • Create a scheduled task (task #1) that inserts the current timestamp into a table every 5 minutes
  • Create a linked task (task #2) that sends an email that confirms the running of task #1 that contains the following information:
    “Task has successfully finished on <Account> which is deployed on <region> region at <timestamp>

Remember, if you want to participate:

  1. Sign up as a member of Frosty Friday. You can do this by clicking on the sidebar, and then going to ‘REGISTER‘
  2. Post your code to GitHub and make it publicly available (Check out our guide if you don’t know how to here)
  3. Post the URL in the comments of the challenge