Automating Snowflake External Table Creation: If you’ve worked with Snowflake External Tables, you’ve likely encountered this scenario: you have a source file with 100+ columns in S3, and you need to create an external table. The traditional approach requires manually parsing and defining each column—a tedious, error-prone process that can […]
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Data Masking with Snowflake Tags: Data governance is no longer optional—it’s a regulatory and business imperative. Organizations handling sensitive data like PII (Personally Identifiable Information) must ensure that the right people see the right data at the right time. But here’s the challenge: How do you scale data masking across […]
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Document AI: Modern finance and operations teams are working in PDF invoices and logistics documents. These files contain rich information – header details, nested line items, shipment summaries – but they are locked in unstructured formats. In this post, we’ll walk through an example that combines: Snowflake Document AI to […]
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InsureTech Solutions processes thousands of car insurance policy documents daily. These policies arrive as PDFs from various sources – agents, brokers, and customers. Document AI is one of the most powerful capabilities inside Snowflake Cortex. While most demos show how to extract text from PDF files, the real value emerges […]
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Business-Day Validation with Snowflake External Functions: Stop Weekend/Holiday SLA Misses .When organizations calculate due dates for claims processing, vendor payments, reimbursements, or customer SLAs, the typical approach is simple arithmetic: “claim_date + 3 days.” But this naive calculation creates real operational problems. Teams across finance, operations, and customer service commit […]
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The Challenge Consider a typical enterprise scenario: your data team onboards new customer tables weekly, each containing various PII fields. Your compliance team requires all sensitive data to be properly tagged and masked based on user roles. Without automation, this becomes a bottleneck as data engineers manually identifying columns, applying […]
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