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Six Reasons Hex and Snowflake Work Great Together

What's this blog post about?

Snowflake, a powerful SQL data warehouse, and Hex, a collaborative data workspace for Python and SQL, work well together due to several reasons. Firstly, Hex provides secure connection processes that allow users to query data without handling credentials. Secondly, it offers true first-class support for both SQL and Python, enabling seamless switching between languages within projects. Thirdly, Hex allows parameterization of SQL queries with Python variables, facilitating dynamic user input in queries and complex chained queries across multiple data sources. Fourthly, it powers complex analytical workloads while serving up data to end users as curated and interactive data apps, leveraging Snowflake's performance and scalability. Lastly, Hex supports Snowpark for Python API, enabling efficient execution of dataframes with distributed computing on the cloud data warehouse.

Company
Hex

Date published
Jan. 10, 2024

Author(s)
Izzy Miller

Word count
1018

Language
English

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