Ideas that move data teams forward
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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...
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New York, we’re on our way! Snowflake World Tour 2026 🗽
Nurit Gal
Snowflake World Tour lands in NYC on Thursday, October 15, and Seemore Data will be right there at booth 50 – ready to talk Snowflake cost, usage, performance, and everything in between.
But here’s the thing: why wait until the show floor to say hello?...
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Snowflake AI Observability for Cortex Agents: Tracking Token-Level Costs with SQL
Guy Biecher
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Intelligent Snowflake Auto Clustering: How to Optimize Auto-Clustering at Scale with AI
Guy Biecher
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What DoiT’s Acquisition of SELECT Signals About the Data Cost Intelligence Market?
Nurit Gal
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How Snowflake’s New Snowpipe Pricing Cut Costs by 80–95% (With Queries to Measure It Yourself)
Guy Biecher
