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Load Data From SQL Server To Snowflake

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Load Data From SQL Server To Snowflake

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  1. Migrating Database to Snowflake from SQL Server

  2. Before going into the intricacies of loading data to Snowflake from Microsoft SQL Server, it is important to understand the concepts of the two platforms. Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system and supports all applications on a single machine, regardless of whether it is based on a local area network or the web. The platform is ideally suited for analytics and database transaction processing and delivers the same efficiencies as other leading databases like DB2 of IBM and Oracle database. Given these features, why would businesses want to load data from SQL Server to Snowflake.

  3. Snowflake • Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing solution that offers all the cutting-edge and technologically advanced benefits of a cloud provider. The Snowflake architecture matches multiple cloud vendors and hence developers can use the same tools to work on any or all of them. • The platform has separate scalable and flexible computing and storage facilities. Users can work on any of them as per requirement and pay only for the volume of resources used. Further, being cloud-based, it offers unlimited storage and computing capabilities. Businesses do not have to invest in additional hardware and software in case of a sudden increase in demand for resources. • Additionally, a benefit for enterprises to load data from SQL Server to Snowflake is that unstructured, semi-structured, and structured can be migrated to Snowflake, a feature that is not available on Oracle or SQL Server. Snowflake is a high-performing data warehouse solution as multiple users can simultaneously execute intricate queries without any drop in performance.

  4. How to load data from SQL Server to Snowflake The following are the steps to load data from SQL Server to Snowflake. ·        Extracting data from SQL Server: The data is first extracted from the SQL Server through queries for extraction. For sorting and filtering the data select statements are used. The Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio tool is used to extract large databases and bulk data in CSV, SQL queries, or text format. ·        Formatting the mined data: The data that is extracted cannot be loaded directly into Snowflake as it has to match the data types that are supported by the Snowflake architecture. The data has to be processed and formatted to meet this condition. However, it is not necessary to specify a schema beforehand for JSON and XML data. ·        Staging of data files: The data files have to be kept in a staging area now. For an internal stage, it has to be created with SQL statements while Snowflake supports Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure as external stages. ·        Data to Snowflake: The final stage to load data from SQL Server to Snowflake is transferring the data from a staging area to Snowflake. This loading of data from Microsoft SQL Server to Snowflake is fully automated.

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