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Data & Analytics · Intermediate

Query Profile

Snowsight's graphical breakdown of a Snowflake query's execution plan, operator statistics, pruning and spilling.

Definition

Key indicators include partitions scanned versus total (pruning), bytes spilled to local or remote storage (warehouse too small), exploding joins (row counts rising sharply) and queuing time.

Exam tip

Remote spilling = scale up the warehouse or reduce the data processed; poor pruning = add filters or a clustering key.

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