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Is it possible in Snowflake to automate a merge?
Currently I have a script that merges between my source and target table but updating and inserting. Both of these tables update daily through a task created on snowflake. I would like to preform this merge daily too. Is it possible to automate this…

alex
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snowflake copy into table from S3
I am trying to do a simple import of an ASCII file in S3 to a snowflake table. The number of columns in the ASCCI file is the same as the number of columns in the table. I got this to work yesterday using an internal stage in Snowflake, but…

Doug Sheehan
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How to schedule a daily sql script in snowflake db
How to schedule a sql script in the snowflake database to run every day, and set the output file name to include the current date. E.g. if the code ran today then the file name should be 20200906*****.csv.gz, similary for tomorrow…

Saivarma Manthena
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How to get maximum value from an array column in Snowflake?
I have a column in snowflake table which is varchar type and contains comma(,) seperated values in it.
I used split(mycolumn,',') to change all the comma(,) seperated values into an array. Now, After using split function i have an array of…

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Snowflake Task ran ever minute of the hour
I am currently working on a snowflake "task" to upsert a table every day in the early hours.
My current task is created using the below syntax -
CREATE OR REPLACE TASK "DB"."SCHEMA"."SAMPLE_TASK"
WAREHOUSE = SAMPLE_WAREHOUSE
SCHEDULE = 'USING…

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Insert into multiple tables using stream & tasks
As per the official documentation, it depicts as though we can insert into multiple tables from a task. Which sounds inaccurate since
Once consumed the offsets of the stream are reset
It is possible to execute only one SQL statement from a task
am…

Somasundaram Sekar
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Snowflake procedure fail from task execution
The following error message is logged when running the procedure from a task, but works fine when I run it manually:
Execution error in store procedure STAGE_SERVICEBUS_ORDER: "Query
code" missing from JSON response At Statement.execute, line 4…

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Executing Multiple Lines in a Snowflake Task
I created the task below and am having trouble getting it to execute all lines. It looks like it just does the first delete from productweekly_upload then completes. Anyone have any ideas? This is my first time using tasks
CREATE OR REPLACE TASK…

Jeff
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get date day full name in snowflake
get date day full name in snowflake
I tried to use below query to get day name but giving short name only(3 Chars of day)
SELECT upper(trim(DAYNAME(CURRENT_DATE)))
O/p: MON
Expected output: MONDAY

Jeyavel
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Snowflake - Task not running
I have created a simple task with the below script and for some reason it never ran.
CREATE OR REPLACE TASK dbo.tab_update
WAREHOUSE = COMPUTE_WH
SCHEDULE = 'USING CRON * * * * * UTC'
AS CALL dbo.my_procedure();
I am using a snowflake trail…

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AGE between 2 dates in snowflake
AGE between 2 dates in snowflake
In Netezza we have function called as AGE but snowflake i couldn't find anything similar
Netezza: select AGE('2019-12-01', '2018-12-12') - o/p: 11 mons 20 days
Is there similar function in snowflake?

Jeyavel
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Snowflake IF ELSE Stored Procedure logic
I have a tsql code that I'm tryinng to migrate into stored proc on Snowflake. I have a version 1 of the proc built and in production. BUT now have to do a lookup change based on IF-ELSE Logic. I can easily do it as suggested on T-sql but how do I…

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Snowflake How to get Records failed in Copy command
is it possible to get records which failed during Copy command in Snowflake from internal stage to snowflake table?
I am trying to load error recrods in a error table during Copy command execution . Copy Command used:
Copy into table ( col1,…

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Error while loading csv file to Snowflake Table as "Timestamp '9/15/2020 1:28:00 AM' is not recognized"
csv_file:
|column_1 | Column_2 | Column_3 |
|===========================================|
|abc | xyz | 9/15/2020 1:28:00 AM |
I am trying to load a file from s3 to snowflake using following command:
COPY INTO table_name
FROM…

Shailesh Akarte
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Schedule snowflake task to run once a month
I would like to schedule my snowflake task to run once a month. It can be 1st day of the month at 12 AM. I suppose I should use cron statements. I tried to do it like this but I am still getting an error
SCHEDULE = ' Using Cron 0 0 1 * *…

Andrzej Lisowski
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