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Snowflake vs Databricks Showdown
Snowflake vs. Databricks: See real benchmark results across 5 workload types — sequential queries, concurrency, cold starts, CTAS, and DML. Find out which platform is faster, cheaper, and right for your data team.

5 Snowflake Query Patterns That Silently Drain Your Budget
Five common Snowflake query patterns silently inflate compute bills by hundreds or thousands of dollars. Learn to spot and stop them before they drain your budget.

SELECT is joining DoiT to scale our mission of eliminating data platform waste
We're incredibly excited to share that we are officially joining the DoiT team to scale our mission of eliminating data platform waste. Learn more about the why behind the acquisition and what this means going forward.

Snowflake BUILD 2025 Recap
Jeff walks us through all the major announcements from Snowflake BUILD 2025 - a virtual conference geared towards builders.

A Beginner's Guide to Snowpark Container Services: Understanding the Building Blocks and Pricing
Jeff explains the concepts of Compute Pools, Services, And Image Repositories which are the building blocks of Snowpark Container Services

Snowflake Cloud Services: Pricing and Monitoring
Jeff walks through how the Cloud Services layer in Snowflake is billed and how you can keep an eye on the spend.

Snowflake Data Transfer Pricing and Egress Cost Optimizer
In this article, Jeff explains what you're actually paying for with Snowflake data transfer costs, which operations incur egress fees, and practical strategies to optimize your spend across regions and cloud platforms. We'll look at how Egress Cost Optimizer works in Snowflake.

Monitoring Snowflake AI Costs: The Complete Series
Jeff walks us through every Snowflake Cortex AI service, how to use it, how it is billed, how to monitor costs, and best practices.

SELECT Product Updates - October 9, 2025
See what's new in SELECT over the last 4 weeks.

Snowflake Document AI: Overview, Pricing & Cost Monitoring
In this article we'll take a deep dive into how Snowflake Document AI works, how it is priced, how to monitor the costs, as well as best practices when using this feature.

Snowflake Cortex Search: Overview, Pricing & Cost Monitoring
In this article we'll take a deep dive into how Cortex Search works, how it is priced, how to monitor the costs, as well as best practices when using this feature.
