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Event Tables in Snowflake

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Event Tables in Snowflake

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Event tables are the core foundational object in Snowflake that you can use to store telemetry about your pipelines. They're mostly like your common table object in Snowflake, but they're a little special in the sense that they're specifically designed for capturing telemetry. Event tables are where you'll store logs and traces from code in your Snowflake environment. Snowflake provides a default event table in all Snowflake accounts, but you can also create your own event tables. When you create an event table, you'll notice that it's created with a default set of columns. These columns follow the data model set by the OpenTelemetry standards. This adherence to an open standard makes it easy to implement observability with familiarity and quickly derive insights from your logs and traces in Snowflake. Let me show you how easy it is to set up and use event tables. Now is a good time to pause the video and log into your Snowflake account. Start by opening a new SQL worksheet. Set your…

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