Defining Snowflake Tables

The following properties are applicable to a Snowflake Table object.

Tab	Property	Description	Additional Information
Is External		Specifies whether the table is an external
General	Physical Name	Specifies the physical name of the table
	Table Type	Specifies the table type
	Data Retention Time (In Days)	Specifies the number of days for which SELECT, CLONE, and UNDROP can be performed on the historical data in the table
	DEFAULT_DDL_COLLATION	Specifies a default collation specification for all the columns in the table
	Copy Grants	Specifies whether the access privileges from the original table are retained when a new table is created
	Like Table	Specifies the table from which the new table must use column definitions
	Clone Table	Specifies whether to create a new table with the same column definitions and containing all the existing data from the source table, without copying the data
	At or Before	Specifies whether to use Time Travel to clone the table at or before a specific point
	Time Type	Specifies the time type for Time Travel
	Point	Specifies the point at or before which the table must be cloned
Cluster By Expressions	Cluster By	Specifies one or more columns or column expressions in the table as the clustering key
Stage Format Options	Use Existing File Format	Specifies whether the existing file format must be used for loading or unloading data into the table
	Stage File Format Type	Specifies the type of files to load or unload into the table	Depending on the format that you set, other corresponding properties are available.
Stage Copy Options	Action On Error (while Copy)	Specifies the action to be performed when an error occurs while loading data from a file
	Copy Size Limit	Specifies the maximum size (in bytes) of data to be loaded for a COPY statement
	Purge After Copy	Specifies whether data files must be purged automatically after data is successfully loaded
	Returned Failed Only	Specifies whether only the files that failed to load are returned in the statement result
	Enforce Length	Specifies whether text strings that exceed the target column length must be truncated
	Match By Column Name	Specifies whether to load semi-structured data into columns in the target table that match corresponding columns represented in the data
	Truncate Columns	Specifies whether text strings that exceed the target column length must be truncated
	Force Load (Reload) All Files	Specifies whether all files must be loaded, irrespective of whether they have been loaded previously and have not changed since they were loaded
External Table Options (Applicable only if the table is an external table)	External Stage Type	Specifies the external stage name
	External Stage Location	Specifies the external stage where the files containing data to be read are staged
	Refresh On Create	Specifies whether the external table metadata must be automatically refreshed after the external table is created
	Auto Refresh	Specifies whether Snowflake should enable triggering automatic refreshes of the external table metadata when new or updated data files are available in the specified external stage
	Pattern	Specifies a regular expression pattern string, enclosed in single quotes, specifying the file names and/or paths on the external stage to match
	Partition By	Specifies any partition columns to evaluate for the external table
Tags List	Name	Specifies the name of the tag
	Value	Specifies the value of the available tag