February 15, 2024 — Snowsight Release Notes¶

New tutorials for trial accounts¶

Snowflake has added new Snowsight worksheets that are available when you create a 30-day trial account. These worksheets contain sample SQL statements or Python code. You can execute the statements or run the code in these worksheets to learn how to accomplish a specific task.

The following new tutorials in the documentation walk you through these worksheets:

• Create users and grant roles - Create a user and grant a role to it by using SQL commands.

• Load and query sample data using SQL - Load and query data for a fictitious food truck brand named Tasty Bytes in Snowflake using SQL.

• Load and query sample data using Snowpark Python - Load and query data for a fictitious food truck brand named Tasty Bytes in Snowflake using Snowpark Python.

• Load data from cloud storage into Snowflake using SQL. The tutorial for this worksheet is available in two versions:

  • Load data from cloud storage: Amazon S3

  • Load data from cloud storage: Microsoft Azure

  The worksheet itself also covers the steps and commands for Google Cloud Storage (GCS).

Larger maximum file size —– General Availability¶

Snowflake has increased the maximum file size from 50 MB to 250 MB for the following use cases:

• Loading data using Snowsight.

• Upload files onto a named internal stage.