# Structure Snowflake database, schema

**URL:** https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/structure-snowflake-database-schema/211
**Category:** In-Depth Discussions
**Created:** [January 14, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/structure-snowflake-database-schema/211 "2019-01-14T16:23:11Z")
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### Author: ![matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/matt)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/structure-snowflake-database-schema/211/9 "2019-01-15T14:22:46Z")

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Perfect, thank you, that makes sense.

> [@dapearce](#):
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> most any of these ever use is 20% of the compute capacity then you’ve probably over-optimized and are paying more than you need to

I’m not sure I understand the billing well enough, but is it not the case that compute resources are strictly pay-per-use, so that even if each tool had it’s own warehouse, you would only pay for the use of each warehouse, and not the fact that they exist? (assuming parity of warehouse size).

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