Operational Playbooks

An operational playbook turns stressful fixes into repeatable moves. In Snowflake, those moves are metadata-first: freeze reality with a clone, prove a correction away from production, promote atomically, and replay what needs to be rebuilt. Because storage is immutable and compute is elastic, recovery is mostly about precise cut lines (where to branch) and deterministic replays (how to catch up). A good playbook reads like a short checklist and runs as SQL you already trust.