Your Teradata expertise is valuable. But carried into Snowflake unchanged, it can cost you. This article covers five areas where experienced Teradata professionals get tripped up: your cost model (fixed licensing vs. pay-per-second), your query optimization instincts (no PI, no indexes, no statistics), your workload management strategy (TASM priority vs. warehouse isolation), your tactical workload (no reserved AWTs, no interrupt capability), and your data loading pipelines (FastLoad/MultiLoad vs. COPY INTO). Each section explains what changes, why your instincts mislead you, and what to do instead.

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Best Regards,

Roland

P.S. - A personal note: My long-term engagement in enterprise banking is winding down, and I'm now actively looking for Teradata→Snowflake migration projects. If you work at or know someone at a company planning this transition, I'd love an introduction. linkedin.com/in/rwenzlofsky