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Data & Analytics · Intermediate

Warehouse Size

The T-shirt size of a Snowflake virtual warehouse (XS, S, M, L, XL up to 6XL), where each step doubles compute and credit consumption.

Definition

An X-Small standard warehouse uses 1 credit per hour, Small 2, Medium 4, Large 8 and so on. Larger sizes speed up large or complex queries and reduce spilling, but they do not help with concurrency queuing. Snowpark-optimized warehouses provide more memory per node for ML workloads.

Exam tip

Spilling to local or remote storage in the Query Profile is a signal to scale up.

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