Snowflake Stage

concept · part of Snowflake

An intermediate object that serves as a bridge between a data source and a Snowflake table, used for data ingestion.

Inside Snowflake Stage (5)

External Stage — A stage that references data stored in external cloud storage (e.g., S3, GCS, Azure), with storage and security managed by the user.
File Format — An optional object that specifies how Snowflake should parse the file being ingested, such as CSV delimiter or header rows.
Internal Stage — A stage where data is stored within Snowflake, with storage and security managed by Snowflake.
Table stage — An internal stage type accessible by multiple users but associated with only one specific table, and not droppable.
User stage — An internal stage type accessible only by the owning user, associated with multiple tables, and not droppable.

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