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Overview

This guide describes the seeds mechanism that helps you upload raw data files (e.g. csv files) to Snowflake as tables

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Prerequisites

This guide should be followed after completing the Getting Started with Snowflake and SDF guide and the Basic Materialization with Snowflake guide.

You’ll also need:

  • A Snowflake account to connect to
  • Valid credentials with read and write access to the SEEDS database used in this guide.

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Guide

1

Create a new SDF Project from the Seeds Sample

Create a new SDF project using the Seeds sample. This will create a new project in your current working directory with the sample project files.

sdf new --sample seeds

The newly created seeds directory contains three files:

  • The workspace file workspace.sdf.yml
  • The data file seeds/raw_customers.csv, and
  • The model models/french_customers.sql which consumes and filters the seed table
2

Contents of the workspace file

Let’s look into the workspace file:

workspace.sdf.yml
workspace:
  name: seeds
  edition: "1.3"
  description: >
    This workspace demonstrates a seed table: a table whose data is provided in a CSV file

    To follow along with SDF's official guide:  https://docs.sdf.com/integrations/snowflake/seeds

  defaults:
    preprocessor: jinja
---
environment:
  name: test
  includes:
    - path: seeds
      type: seed
    - path: models

Of note is the includes section containing two paths:

  • The models directory for all the model code, and
  • The seeds directory for the data files in CSV format.

The seeds path is declared with type: seed. This instructs SDF to look for CSV files in the specified directory.

Since we want to materialize the seed data as a table into Snowflake, let’s update the workspace.sdf.yml file to include Snowflake integration configuration:

workspace.sdf.yml
workspace:
  name: seeds
  edition: "1.3"
  description: >
    This workspace demonstrates a seed table: a table whose data is provided in a CSV file

    To follow along with SDF's official guide:  https://docs.sdf.com/integrations/snowflake/seeds

  defaults:
    dialect: snowflake
    preprocessor: jinja

  integrations:
    - provider: snowflake
      type: database
      targets:
        - pattern: "*.*.*"

---
environment:
  name: test
  includes:
    - path: seeds
      type: seed
    - path: models
3

Seed files

The seed flies must use CSV format and must include a header row. Here is seeds/raw_customers.csv with some synthetic customer data:

seeds/raw_customers.csv
customerid,name,phone,email,address,region,postalzip,country,createdat,updatedat
1,Genevieve Trevino,1-394-354-2458,gravida.aliquam@icloud.ca,749-727 Aliquam Rd.,Zamboanga Peninsula,5377 SH,Italy,2022-12-14T00:07:02.407Z,2022-12-21T14:08:36.464Z
2,Amos Dyer,1-277-725-1145,consequat.dolor.vitae@yahoo.couk,Ap 984-2094 Nulla. Ave,Västra Götalands län,392910,Russian Federation,2023-02-28T10:06:36.354Z,2023-03-05T18:06:37.369Z
3,Leslie Rollins,1-584-147-6573,nunc.sed@aol.net,366-8487 Pede. Street,Trøndelag,X1V 4CC,Austria,2023-02-13T02:06:10.388Z,2023-02-24T20:07:47.418Z
...
4

Models derived from seeds

Seed files materialize as tables which can be used in the definition of other models just like any other table. Here is a model which filters the above seed table to a subset of rows whose country is France:

models/french_customers.sql
select * from raw_customers
where country = 'France'

We can run this model as follows:

sdf run french_customers -e test

Working set 1 model file, 1 seed file, 1 .sdf file
  Uploading ‘INTEGRATION_TEST.PUB.RAW_CUSTOMERS’
    Running integration_test.pub.french_customers (./models/french_customers.sql)
   Finished 2 models [2 succeeded] in 9.276 secs
Table INTEGRATION_TEST.PUB.FRENCH_CUSTOMERS
┌────────────┬─────────────────┬────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬───────────┬─────────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
│ CUSTOMERID ┆ NAME            ┆ PHONE          ┆ EMAIL                                  ┆ ADDRESS                         ┆ REGION                      ┆ POSTALZIP ┆ COUNTRY ┆ CREATEDAT               ┆ UPDATEDAT               │
╞════════════╪═════════════════╪════════════════╪════════════════════════════════════════╪═════════════════════════════════╪═════════════════════════════╪═══════════╪═════════╪═════════════════════════╪═════════════════════════╡
│ 10         ┆ Alfonso Mcbride ┆ 1-426-567-2754 ┆ ultricies.ligula.nullam@protonmail.net ┆ P.O. Box 120, 3949 Leo, Rd.     ┆ North Island                ┆ 4751-5554 ┆ France  ┆ 2023-02-11T02:05:55.379 ┆ 2023-02-19T09:06:00.400 │
│ 11         ┆ Carol White     ┆ 1-192-246-3106 ┆ porttitor.scelerisque.neque@icloud.edu ┆ Ap #345-4585 Luctus Rd.         ┆ Saint Petersburg City       ┆ 57565     ┆ France  ┆ 2023-01-24T07:06:21.325 ┆ 2023-02-02T10:07:55.385 │
│ 44         ┆ Keely Mccarthy  ┆ 1-557-880-9789 ┆ tristique.senectus@aol.org             ┆ P.O. Box 432, 6899 Accumsan Rd. ┆ Luxemburg                   ┆ 7542      ┆ France  ┆ 2023-03-08T05:05:59.346 ┆ 2023-03-19T03:07:29.433 │
│ 76         ┆ Samantha Booker ┆ 1-691-851-1158 ┆ faucibus.orci@google.ca                ┆ 148-3403 Aenean Road            ┆ Southwestern Tagalog Region ┆ 8533      ┆ France  ┆ 2023-03-06T09:05:33.404 ┆ 2023-03-14T08:06:44.471 │
│ 104        ┆ Kitra Huber     ┆ 1-322-815-5342 ┆ interdum.curabitur@hotmail.couk        ┆ 910-6287 Nam Rd.                ┆ Viken                       ┆ 45012     ┆ France  ┆ 2023-02-22T17:06:44.334 ┆ 2023-03-01T08:08:24.417 │
│ 147        ┆ Kaseem Rowland  ┆ 1-209-868-8767 ┆ sed.facilisis@google.edu               ┆ 2536 Aliquam St.                ┆ Cartago                     ┆ 8576-5132 ┆ France  ┆ 2023-02-16T21:06:00.390 ┆ 2023-02-22T05:06:19.404 │
│ 229        ┆ Deirdre Clark   ┆ 1-821-572-8987 ┆ augue.scelerisque.mollis@hotmail.couk  ┆ 2734 Natoque Avenue             ┆ North Chungcheong           ┆ 858642    ┆ France  ┆ 2023-02-08T11:06:13.389 ┆ 2023-02-12T07:07:30.436 │
│ 257        ┆ Marah Silva     ┆ 1-577-860-9883 ┆ pellentesque.ut.ipsum@yahoo.org        ┆ Ap #318-2518 Risus St.          ┆ Lubelskie                   ┆ 4718      ┆ France  ┆ 2022-12-29T06:05:53.314 ┆ 2023-01-07T03:07:15.331 │
│ 316        ┆ Berk Melendez   ┆ 1-425-391-6429 ┆ vel@aol.ca                             ┆ Ap #540-6098 Semper, Road       ┆ Paraná                      ┆ 1274      ┆ France  ┆ 2023-01-24T13:06:14.320 ┆ 2023-02-02T07:07:19.398 │
│ 377        ┆ Adam Fitzgerald ┆ 1-477-951-6067 ┆ sem@google.edu                         ┆ Ap #426-4098 Vestibulum Rd.     ┆ Nariño                      ┆ 53150     ┆ France  ┆ 2023-01-13T03:06:22.406 ┆ 2023-01-25T23:06:40.441 │
└────────────┴─────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴───────────┴─────────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
10 rows.
5

Ad-hoc queries against seeds

We can also run ad-hoc queries directly against seeds tables. Here is a query counting the number of countries in raw_customers:

sdf run -e test -q "SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT country) AS cnt FROM raw_customers"

Working set 2 model files, 1 seed file, 1 .sdf file
  Uploading ‘INTEGRATION_TEST.PUB.RAW_CUSTOMERS’
    Running integration_test.pub.query (./sdftarget/test/query.sql)
   Finished 2 models [2 succeeded] in 5.965 secs
Table INTEGRATION_TEST.PUB.QUERY
┌─────┐
│ CNT │
╞═════╡
│ 35  │
└─────┘
1 rows.
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