Practical notes for Snowflake, Databricks, and SQL.

Apr 29, 2026 Build a Cortex Analyst Semantic Model Lab A Cortex Analyst lab for creating governed sales data, drafting a semantic model, asking natural-language questions, validating SQL, and cleaning up. Apr 29, 2026 Build a RAG Workflow With Cortex Embeddings A retrieval-augmented generation lab using Snowflake Cortex embeddings, vector similarity, answer generation, quality checks, and cleanup. Apr 29, 2026 Build a Snowflake Feature Store Lab for Reusable ML Features A Snowflake Feature Store lab for defining reusable customer features, creating training data, validating freshness, and cleaning up. Apr 29, 2026 Deploy Open Source Model Workflows With Snowpark Container Services A deployment-oriented lab showing how to package an open-source model workflow, register model metadata, evaluate inference logs, and clean up. Apr 29, 2026 Extract Structured Fields From Documents With Cortex A document-style Gen AI lab that extracts invoice fields from sample text, validates structured JSON, checks accuracy, and cleans up. Apr 29, 2026 Govern and Evaluate Gen AI Outputs in Snowflake A lab for governing Gen AI prompts and outputs with role-aware inputs, masking, audit tables, quality checks, and cleanup.