One of the public preview features that was recently launched: Snowflake Copilot. Introduced in April 2024, so Snowflake is a bit late to the party it seems, available only in select Snowflake regions: AWS us-east-1 & AWS us-west-2. So, how can we access this?
Very simple, launch a 30 day trial (as described here), with one difference, choose region US East (Northern Virginia). After going through the rest of the trial-launch questions, click + to open new worksheet. You will find a button in the bottom right corner:
Set the context for the worksheet: database & warehouse. Then, start asking your questions:
When you start your first Copilot session, you might not be able to see answers to your queries. Two different replies can be visible:
“Delay in detecting new databases, schemas, and tables: It may take up to 3–4 hours for Snowflake Copilot to recognize newly created databases, schemas, and tables”. For this trial, i checked the next day, to find the database indexed, and I could use Copilot.
This is ok for now, but I am assuming this will be fixed by Snowflake in the future. Let’s say you’re working on some scenario’s where you create new…