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Data & Analytics · Intermediate

Snowflake Stage

A named or implicit location of data files used for loading and unloading: internal (Snowflake-managed) or external (S3, Azure Blob, GCS).

Definition

Internal stages come in three kinds: user (@~), table (@%table) and named (@stage). External stages reference cloud storage, usually through a storage integration so credentials aren't embedded. Files are uploaded to internal stages with PUT and downloaded with GET.

Example

PUT file:///data/orders.csv @my_int_stage;

Exam tip

PUT and GET work only with internal stages; external stage files are managed with the cloud provider's own tools.

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