Snowflake·Snowflake essentials

Tables

Snowflake supports permanent, transient and temporary tables.

Intermediate 10 min read Lesson 2 of 150 Challenge included
What you will be able to do
  • Use transient for staging.
  • Clustering helps large scans.
  • Time travel enables recovery.

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Snowflake supports permanent, transient and temporary tables.

  • Use transient for staging.
  • Clustering helps large scans.
  • Time travel enables recovery.
tables.sqlSQL
CREATE TABLE lessons (course STRING, minutes NUMBER);
INSERT INTO lessons VALUES ('CSS', 18);
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Answer from memory: Which table type avoids fail-safe storage?

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