What is Zero Copy Clone Snowflake?- Visualpath
Cloning, often known as Zero Copy Cloning Snowflake duplicates a database, schema, or table. When the clone is produced, a snapshot of the data in the source object is captured and made available to the copied object. The cloned object can be written to and is unrelated to the clone source. That is, modifications implemented to either the source or clone object do not affect the other. The clone can be replicated an unlimited number of times in Snowflake , with each clone having a piece of shared storage and independent storage. Every table in Snowflake has a unique ID that is used to identify it. Similarly, every table has CLONE GROUP ID , which indicates whether or not the table is cloned. If both columns have a different ID, this table is cloned; otherwise, it is not. To query the TABLE STORAGE METRICS view, you must have the Account Admin role. When you use the Clone database command, it simply does the following: Makes a new ...