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Your Snowflake Cost Dashboard Might Be Lying to You
Yaniv Leven
Why bytes scanned is the wrong yardstick for spend, and what to measure instead
A few weeks ago a story made the rounds in Snowflake circles with a great headline: a 149 GB query that Snowflake reported as having scanned negative 1.5 GB. The cause was a quiet technical...
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Your FinOps Data Just Moved Into Your Chat Window
Nurit Gal
Data questions rarely show up at a convenient time, and they rarely show up simple. “Is this spike real or just noise?” “What actually feeds this table before I touch it?” “Did that automation we turned on last month actually do anything?” These aren’t questions with a...
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The Snowflake Budget You Didn’t Mean to Spend on “Just in Case”
Nurit Gal
Every data team has a few of these: a job that got scheduled to run every hour, “just to be safe,” back when someone wasn’t sure how often the table actually needed refreshing. Nobody sat down and decided to overspend – it was the safe default...
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“We’ll Clean It Up Later”: The Hidden Cost of the Snowflake Tables Nobody Remembers
Nurit Gal
Every data team has had this moment. Someone’s poking around the Snowflake catalog and stumbles on a table with a name like staging_backup_v2_final or temp_export_q3. Nobody recognizes it. Nobody’s sure who made it, what it was for, or whether anything...
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The Question Every Cost-Saving Automation Has to Answer: “But Did It Hurt Performance?”
Nurit Gal
Every team that turns on a cost automation asks some version of the same question first, even if they never say it out loud: will this come back to bite us? Suspending idle warehouses sounds great until the one time someone needed it and it wasn’t there. Scaling...
