What is the primary purpose of defining clustering keys on a large table?

To improve query performance by reducing the amount of data scanned

To enable data sharing with other accounts

To automatically aggregate data for faster reporting

To enforce uniqueness constraints on the table

What is the primary advantage of using bulk loading with the COPY INTO command compared to Snowpipe?

It is more cost-effective for large, infrequent data loads

It supports loading from external stages only

It does not require any compute resources

It loads data automatically as soon as files arrive

A global e-commerce company runs a Snowflake environment with a multi-cluster warehouse (min 1, max 6) serving both internal analysts and external partners via a shared API. During a flash sale, the API generates a massive spike in concurrent queries, causing the warehouse to scale to its maximum of 6 clusters. Even at maximum, queries are queuing. The team needs to handle the spike without impacting internal analysts. What is the best approach?

Use a resource monitor to limit the API's credit consumption.

Increase the maximum clusters to 12 to provide more capacity for the spike.

Set a lower statement timeout on the warehouse to kill long-running API queries.

Create a separate warehouse for the API and another for internal analysts, each with its own multi-cluster configuration.

What is the primary purpose of resizing a virtual warehouse from X-Small to Large?

To reduce the cost of running queries

To increase the storage capacity of the warehouse

To enable auto-suspend and auto-resume

To increase the maximum concurrency and query performance for a workload

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A global e-commerce company runs a Snowflake environment with a multi-cluster warehouse (min 1, max 6) serving both internal analysts and external partners via a shared API. During a flash sale, the API generates a massive spike in concurrent queries, causing the warehouse to scale to its maximum of 6 clusters. Even at maximum, queries are queuing. The team needs to handle the spike without impacting internal analysts. What is the best approach?
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What is the primary purpose of resizing a virtual warehouse from X-Small to Large?
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Which parameter controls the maximum number of clusters that a multi-cluster warehouse can use?
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