Ideas that move data teams forward

Snowflake’s most recent earnings call, led by CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy, was filled with signals about where the data cloud is heading, and what it means for the teams tasked with navigating it. Let’s break down the key takeaways and why they matter for Snowflake users. 1...

Snowflake is widely praised for its scalability and performance, but cost control often remains a black box. Many teams rely on simplified query cost estimates that don’t reflect how Snowflake actually bills usage. In this post, we’ll break down the underlying factors that drive cost per query and show how a more accurate method can lead to smarter optimization and lower spend.

Seemore Data’s main dashboard is your command center for smarter data decisions. Right from the start, you get a clear snapshot of savings, budgeting, and usage trends, making it easy to spot what matters most. Key KPIs and cost shifts over time help you zero in on the ...

Stop paying warehouse minutes for metadata seconds! TL;DR A customer was burning about $30 000 per year keeping a medium warehouse up 24 × 7. Its only job? Running ten metadata‑refresh queries (one per Iceberg table) every minute. Each query took milliseconds, yet Sno...

On May 5th, Snowflake officially rolled out Generation 2 Standard Warehouses (Gen2), a long-anticipated upgrade aimed at improving cost-performance for data-heavy workloads. At Seemore Data, we immediately took this to the field: testing it not in theory, but in live pr...

Snowflake gave us infinite scale, but it also handed us an infinitely growing bill and an ever-longer list of operational questions: How much does Time Travel really cost me? Why does this rarely used clone cost 20% of my storage bill? Are my warehouses siz...