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Scaling Policy

The multi-cluster warehouse setting (Standard or Economy) that controls how eagerly Snowflake starts additional clusters.

Definition

Standard, the default, starts a cluster as soon as queuing is detected, favoring performance. Economy starts a cluster only if there is enough load to keep it busy for about six minutes, favoring credit savings at the cost of some queuing.

Exam tip

Economy = save credits and tolerate queuing; Standard = minimize queuing.

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