Snowflake Essentials: Getting Started with Big Data in the Cloud

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022

F. Bell et al.Snowflake Essentialshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7316-6_8

8. Database Objects

Frank Bell¹  , Raj Chirumamilla², Bhaskar B. Joshi³, Bjorn Lindstrom⁴, Ruchi Soni⁵ and Sameer Videkar⁶

(1)

Encino, USA

(2)

Monmouth Jct, USA

(3)

Bethesda, MD, USA

(4)

Eatonville, USA

(5)

New Delhi, Delhi, India

(6)

Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

 

As a relational database management system, Snowflake supports a wide variety of objects, many of which you may have used in other database platforms, but not all.

These include the following:

• Warehouses

• Roles

• Databases

• Schemas

• Tables

• Constraints

• Clustered keys

• Views

• External tables

• User-defined functions

• Stored procedures

• Sequences

• Stages ...