Snowflake ProTalk
Finding Sins in Table & Column Performance

Table and column performance is key to a healthy and cost-efficient data estate. Many factors can go into the erosion of table and storage performance. Ignoring chronic low-efficiency tables with more horsepower only expands inefficiency with additional time and data. Yet at times, adding more horsepower is exactly the right thing to do. How do you know what action to take? 

Part of the challenge lies in the complexity of determining the root cause of performance hang-ups. Additionally, most database experts do not fundamentally understand how Snowflake's query process actually works. 

In this session, Rich Hathaway and Arkady Kleyner do a deep dive into the root causes of table and column performance and how to unearth those root causes.

In this session you will learn:

• Scenarios that lead to performance problems
• The levers of Snowflake table and column performance
• How to unearth the data necessary to surface the root cause of table performance