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Warehouses

Virtual warehouses provide compute independent of storage.

Intermediate 10 min read Lesson 1 of 150 Challenge included
What you will be able to do
  • Create a warehouse.
  • Suspend when idle.
  • Size for workload.

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Virtual warehouses provide compute independent of storage.

  • Create a warehouse.
  • Suspend when idle.
  • Size for workload.
warehouse.sqlSQL
CREATE WAREHOUSE app_wh WITH WAREHOUSE_SIZE = 'XSMALL' AUTO_SUSPEND = 60;
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