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QuestionQ39

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Which Snowflake capability is maintained separately from the data and helps support features including Time Travel, Secure Data Sharing, and pruning?

Explanation

Snowflake maintains metadata separately from table data. Its services layer and metadata store support Secure Data Sharing, while metadata for micro-partitions contains value-range and related information used to prune unneeded data during queries. Metadata also supports tracking historical data states for Time Travel.

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