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Date Published
Author
Elliot Gunn
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678
Language
English
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Summary

SnowConvert AI is Snowflake's AI-enhanced tool integrated into its existing SnowConvert solution, designed to assist in translating SQL code from legacy systems to Snowflake-compatible syntax. Highlighted at the 2025 Snowflake Summit, the tool emphasizes self-service migrations with a focus on code translation and developer experience, offering a VS Code-based AI tool to help users address SQL translation issues. However, SnowConvert AI lacks comprehensive features like data validation, orchestration, and support for complex workflows, making it less suitable for large-scale enterprise migrations. Unlike a full migration system, it primarily provides syntax-level assistance without ensuring data accuracy or automated end-to-end validation. While it supports SQL Server and offers AI-powered suggestions via Snowflake Cortex, users must manually review and correct translations using the Migration Assistant GUI. In contrast, Datafold's Migration Agent (DMA) is positioned as a more robust solution, ensuring complete data validation and transformation while being data warehouse agnostic, offering true automation for migrations.