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A. CarruthersTuning the Snowflake Data Cloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0379-6_5

5. Cluster Keys

Andrew Carruthers1  
(1)
Birmingham, UK
 

Cluster keys go hand in hand with micro-partitions. It may not be evident that all object micro-partitions have a cluster key, but they do. Identifying the constituent attributes of an undeclared cluster key will prove difficult if not impossible to determine, but rest assured every micro-partition has a cluster key.

If you read the previous chapter, you have encountered some of the tooling used to identify micro-partitions counts and, as a side effect, will already have begun to gather some information about cluster ...

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