Is there any way we can connect snowflake with GIT for version control. With the help of that, we can maintain version of our merge statement and any other sql script in GIT.
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Yes! One way to do this is to store your Snowflake SQL code in a file/files with the sql extension (i.e. filename.sql). You can add those files to a GIT repo and track them in the repo accordingly.
This is an age old question when dealing with databases and how one should go about versioning them. Unfortunately, no database really integrates directly into any VCS that I'm aware of.
My team has settled on using dbt. This essentially turns the database into a series of text files that are easily integrated with git. The short of it is that you edit your models as local text files, and then use dbt run to put these models into Snowflake itself. This is kind of nice as you can configure separate environments such as dev and prod.
DBeaver has git integration and is the best solution my team has found for version control with Snowflake. It's not perfect but it allows you to run your scripts against Snowflake and then push your SQL code to a git repository through the app UI or command line.
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