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[ Getting Started  ](/en/user-guide-getting-started)

[ Guides  ](/en/guides)

[ Developer  ](/en/developer)

[ Reference  ](/en/reference)

[ Releases  ](/en/release-notes/new-features)

[ Tutorials  ](/en/tutorials)

[ Status  ](https://status.snowflake.com)

#  Snowflake Documentation

Streamline your Snowflake journey with comprehensive documentation and
learning resources

##  Featured Resources

Dive into our top picks

[ user guide  Connecting to Snowflake  Learn about the applications and tools
that you can use to access Snowflake  ](/en/guides-overview-connecting)

[ user guide  Working with Virtual Warehouses  Learn how to create and manage
warehouses, which are used to process queries  ](/en/user-guide/warehouses)

[ user guide  Databases, Tables and Views  Learn how to create and manage
databases, tables, and views for storing and accessing your data
](/en/guides-overview-db)

[ user guide  Load Data into Snowflake  Learn about the different options for
getting data into Snowflake and setting up a pipeline to transform your data
](/en/guides-overview-loading-data)

##  Discover the Most Popular Resources

##  Getting Started

Basic information and instructions for first-time users of Snowflake.

[ Getting a Trial Account ](/en/user-guide/admin-trial-account)

[ Snowflake in 20 Minutes ](/en/user-guide/getting-started-tutorial)

[ Key Concepts and Architecture ](/en/user-guide/intro-key-concepts)

[ Connecting to Snowflake ](/en/guides-overview-connecting)

[ See all  ](/en/user-guide-getting-started)

##  User Guides

Instructions on performing various Snowflake operations.

[ Understanding & Using Time Travel ](/en/user-guide/data-time-travel)

[ Working with Temporary and Transient Tables ](/en/user-guide/tables-temp-
transient)

[ Working with Materialized Views ](/en/user-guide/views-materialized)

[ See all  ](/en/guides)

##  Developer Guides

Write applications that extend Snowflake, act as a client, or act as an
integrating component.

[ Snowflake Native App Framework ](/en/developer-guide/native-apps/native-
apps-about)

[ Snowpark API ](/en/developer-guide/snowpark/index)

[ User-defined Functions (UDFs) and Stored Procedures ](/en/developer-
guide/extensibility)

[ Drivers ](/en/developer-guide/drivers)

[ See all  ](/en/developer)

##  Reference

Reference for SQL data types, SQL commands, SQL functions, SQL classes,
scripting, views, and other areas

[ SQL Data Types ](/en/sql-reference-data-types)

[ SQL Commands ](/en/sql-reference-commands)

[ SQL Functions ](/en/sql-reference-functions)

[ SQL Classes ](/en/sql-reference-classes)

[ Snowflake Scripting ](/en/sql-reference-snowflake-scripting)

[ See all  ](/en/reference)

##  Tutorials

Tutorials to help you learn the basics of using Snowflake

[ Snowflake in 20 Minutes ](/en/user-guide/tutorials/snowflake-in-20minutes)

[ Bulk Loading from a Local File System ](/en/user-guide/data-load-local-file-
system)

[ Bulk Loading from Amazon S3 Using COPY ](/en/user-guide/data-load-s3)

[ See all  ](/en/tutorials)

##  Releases

Overview of the new features, enhancements, and important fixes introduced in
the most recent releases of Snowflake.

[ New features ](/en/release-notes/new-features)

[ Behavior change log ](/en/release-notes/behavior-changes)

[ Snowflake connector, driver, and library monthly releases ](/en/release-
notes/clients-drivers/monthly-releases)

[ See all  ](/en/release-notes/new-features)

##  What’s New

Overview of the new features, enhancements, and important behavior changes
introduced in the most recent releases of Snowflake

[ See all  ](/en/release-notes/new-features)

###  Recent Product Updates

[ preview  On February 20th, 2024  Snowflake Hybrid Tables  With this release,
we are pleased to announce the preview of hybrid tables. Hybrid tables is a
new Snowflake table type that provides optimized performance on row-oriented
read and write operations in transactional and analy