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by nrjames 293 days ago
I'm in an enterprise environment where a central IT platform team controls what size warehouses we can have in Snowflake. They are not receptive to arguments for larger warehouses, unfortunately. Our issue becomes long-running queries b/c Snowflake spills the data to disk during the joins. TBH, I could join the data more quickly on my laptop than in the warehouse I'm allowed to use. Anyhow, I have then an old build server that is beefy & has 512 GB of RAM, so I can set up my aggregation and/or OLAP services there, since it's an unencumbered playground.