Single-file, copy-paste-ready quick references for Snowflake features developers reach for daily. Not docs. Not tutorials. The 5–10 things you actually use, verified once, formatted to fit in your peripheral vision.
Community resource — not official Snowflake documentation. For authoritative reference, see docs.snowflake.com.
| Cheatsheet | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Executor Role | EXECUTE AS OWNER/CALLER, task/dynamic table execution context, masking policy context functions, troubleshooting permission errors |
| Snowflake CLI | snow CLI commands, connection management, SQL execution, object management |
| SPCS | Snowpark Container Services setup, compute pools, service specs, image registry |
| Warehouses | Warehouse sizing, auto-suspend, multi-cluster, resource monitors, cost controls |
| Iceberg | Iceberg table creation, catalog integration, storage options, time travel |
| Snowflake Postgres | Snowflake Postgres instances, pg_lake, CLD setup, managed storage |
| GitHub Authentication | OIDC-first auth, GitHub Actions integration, PAT fallback |
| RAG Evaluation | RAGAS metrics, Cortex evaluation functions, evaluation dataset setup |
| Cortex Code | Cortex Code CLI commands, sessions, skills, context management |
A cheatsheet is the answer you already verified, ready the moment you need it. An AI agent is the answer you hope is right, arriving after a round-trip.
Agents re-generate every time. That means hallucination risk (confidently wrong flags, deprecated syntax, commands that don't exist), 2–10 second round-trip latency, and no offline use. A cheatsheet has been manually verified once, survives a plane flight or an air-gapped VPC, and can be pinned in Slack, bookmarked, or pasted into onboarding docs. It also builds mental models in a way that prompting doesn't.
The mistake is using an agent as a faster cheatsheet. Agents win on reasoning over your specific context — debug this error, explain why this query is slow, generate this pipeline from a description. That is not what a cheatsheet is for.
File all issues at https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/sf-cheatsheets/issues