Defining Snowflake Stages

The following properties are applicable to a Snowflake Stage object.

Tab	Property	Description	Additional Information
General	Is Temporary	Specifies whether the stage is temporary
External Stage Parameters These properties are applicable only when the Stage Type property is set to External.	External Stage Type	Specifies the external stage name
	URL	Specifies the external location's URL used to store data files for loading and unloading
	Storage Integration	Specifies the name of the storage integration used to delegate authentication responsibility
	Aws Key ID	Specifies the security credentials required to connect to AWS and access a private or protected bucket	These fields are available based on the External Stage Type.
	Aws secret key
	Aws Token
	Aws Role	Specifies the role to be used to identify instead of the security credentials
	Azure Sas Token	Specifies the SAS token to connect to Azure and access a private or protected container
	External Stage Encryption Type	Specifies the encryption type to be used
	External Stage Encryption Kms Key ID	Specifies the ID of the KMS-managed key used to encrypt files unloaded into the bucket
	External Stage Encryption Master Key	Specifies the client-side master key used to encrypt or decrypt the files in a container
	Enable	Specifies whether to add a directory table to the stage object
	Auto Refresh	Specifies whether to enable a trigger to automatically refresh the directory table
	Subpath	Specifies the URL for the external database location to store data files
Stage Format Options	Use Existing File Format	Specifies whether the existing file format must be used for the stage
	Stage File Format Type	Specifies the types of files for the stage	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 to 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