SnowPro Core Certification COF-C02 Snowflake Study Notes

Pre-signed URLs in Snowflake allow users to access unstructured data without the need for authentication into Snowflake or passing an authorization token. These URLs are open and can be directly accessed or downloaded by any user or application, making them ideal for business intelligence applications or reporting tools that need to display unstructured file contents

 Snowflake reorganizes data into its internal optimized, compressed, columnar format in the Database Storage layer. This process is part of how Snowflake manages data storage, ensuring efficient data retrieval and query performance

The OPERATE privilege is required for a role to resume a suspended warehouse if auto-resume is not enabled. This privilege allows the role to start, stop, suspend, or resume a virtual warehouse3.

References: [COF-C02] SnowPro Core Certification Exam Study Guide

The Snowflake feature that allows for small volumes of data to be continuously loaded into Snowflake and incrementally made available for analysis is Snowpipe. Snowpipe is designed for near-real-time data loading, enabling data to be loaded as soon as it’s available in the storage layer3