Optimization - Greybeam - Optimize Snowflake using DuckDB

Why Is My Snowflake Bill So High and How to Reduce It

Mar 17, 2026 10 min read Optimization

You're in the weekly Snowflake optimization review. Snowflake is over budget again. The team already did the normal cleanup pass: 60 second auto-suspend, smaller warehouses, and optimization on the longest running

Benchmarking Snowflake Interactive Tables and Warehouses

Dec 1, 2025 5 min read Optimization

Are interactive tables worth it? What are the caveats? We answer all of that and more.

How Headset Cut Snowflake BI Costs by 92% While Supporting 2,500+ Users

Nov 25, 2025 8 min read Playbooks

Headset's journey to drastically reduce Snowflake costs from ingestion to analytics.

MIN_BY and MAX_BY in Snowflake

Nov 21, 2025 4 min read Optimization

How to use MAX_BY and MIN_BY in Snowflake (and DuckDB, BigQuery, Databricks) to replace messy self-joins and windows when getting latest or top-N values per group.

Snowflake Query Optimization: 7 Tips for Faster Queries

Sep 29, 2025 20 min read Optimization

A deep dive into 7 fundamental tips for Snowflake query optimization: pruning, join optimization, clustering, cache, and more for faster queries.