QuestionQ40

Snowflake AI Data Cloud Features & Architecture

What is the storage impact when a user clones a 1 TB table and updates 10% of the rows in the cloned table?

Explanation

Snowflake zero-copy clones initially share the source table’s underlying micro-partitions. Updating data in the clone creates new micro-partitions owned by that clone, so additional storage is consumed only for the modified data rather than duplicating the entire 1 TB table.

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