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title: "Introduction to Snowflake | Smart Data"
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description: "A Lunch and Learn introduction to Snowflake: why legacy data systems hit limits, Snowflake's technical advantages, architecture use cases and how to start."
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Lunch and Learn

# Introduction to Snowflake

Jay Brown

Business Development August 6, 2020 1 min read

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## Lunch and Learn Event

**August 13th, 2020**

**12:00pm - 1:00 pm**

**Online Only**

In today’s data-driven business environment, data warehouses serving a wide range of reporting and data analysis needs are commonplace. Having evolved over the years, these legacy systems face new limitations from today’s data-driven world. This lunch-and-learn presents an introduction to Snowflake, its technology advantages, architectural use cases, and tips for you to explore the platform.

#### Here are a few of the key takeaways:

- Technology advantages
- Architectural patterns on where to use Snowflake

##### Recording:

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