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Data Warehouse Cost Optimization

Cut warehouse spend wisely

Lowering warehouse costs includes clustering/partitioning to prune scans, right-sizing warehouses, pausing idle compute, compressing and archiving cold data, and monitoring heavy queries for tuning.

Reduce Scan

Partition/cluster tables; avoid SELECT *; use pruning filters.

Right-Size Compute

Use smaller/auto-suspend clusters; schedule jobs off-peak.

Manage Storage

Compress, archive cold data, and drop unused tables.

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