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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

How to define chargeback model for snowflake ?

 Are you planning to implement snowflake and interested in knowing about how to plan your snowflake expenses ? Are you also would like to know what are the expenses occurs for snowflake implementation? If so,then you reached right place. In this article we will see what is snowflake chargeback model, what are the snowflake components where expenses occurs and how to plan those.so Let's start 





What is snowflake chargeback model?

snowflake operates with a flexible pay-as-you-go model. For traditional data solution we have initial fixed cost and later adds with service and maintains cost . Here snowflake gives flexibility to increase or decrease the cost based on usage. what we have to do is , just create an account and start using it . However , if we do not plan properly the snowflake bill will go high.

Factors to consider about pay 

a) How to Pay : We  have to decide in advance about paying snowflake credits. We need to decide whether each project will pay for usage or enterprise level payment.

b) Snowflake discount : Snowflake provides discount on the volume of purchased credit so consider making consolidated purchase.





Snowflake component with expenses?

Here is list of Snowflake components which produces expenses -

1. Warehouse

2. Snowflake

3. Materialized views

4. Cloud services

5. Data transfers

6. Storage

How to reduce snowflake expenses?

a) Very first thing to consider for reducing snowflake expenses is minimize the usage across enterprise i.e use only much you need

b) Plan for all potential expenses from each of the snowflake components

c) Track snowflake expenses to determine how much consumption has occurred & how to charge it.

d) Create naming convention for database objects which will help to identify owner and associate budget .

e) Maintain the snowflake expenses tracking

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Friday, April 9, 2021

How to fix ORA-00604-Error occurred at recursive SQL level 1

 Are you working on a project where the oracle database is being used for implementation? Are you also facing an ORA-00604 and looking for fixing this error? If so, then you reached the right place. In this article, we are going to see how to fix ORA-00604-Error that occurred at recursive SQL level 1.





What is ORA-00604?

The error message ORA-00604-Error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 is commonly noticed in the application logs or identified by oracle user. This error message is a little complex and has its own challenges to fix. Let's understand what is the root cause of it.

The root cause of ORA-00604 

There are several causes of this error, however, the main cause is processing a recursive SQL statement. you might have a question what is the recursive statement? A recursive statement SQL statement that is applied to internal dictionary tables.

Example of ORA-00604

Assume that you are using Oracle 11g or 12c and you are getting 'ORA -00604-Error occurred at recursive SQL level 1' where table or view does not exist one of the causes for this is a trigger. The trigger might be 

1) to insert records into an audit log table or

2) to fire DDL statements or

3) to drop the audit log table Let's see possible option to fix this error





 How to fix ORA-00604 - 

Option 1:- Analyze and fix trigger error in order to determine if the error is related to DB trigger, execute statement below-

ALTER SYSTEM SET "_system_trig_enabled"=FALSE; 

Find the trigger which causes the issue & disables it.

Option 2:- syntax error in the SQL generated in the application. If an ORA error caused because of an error or bug in the  SQL code then reach out to developers of the code & fix it.

Option 3:- Oracle support If the error still persists then reach out to the oracle support team.


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