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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2022
Snowflake Inc., Bozeman, MT (US);
Yucan Liu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Snowflake Inc., Bozeman, MT (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for inferring a schema for a text file are provided. The systems and methods perform operations including: accessing a file comprising a plurality of textual records, each textual record of the plurality of textual records being associated with one or more columns of data; sampling a set of textual records from the plurality of textural records; obtaining a hierarchy comprising a plurality of levels of schema types; determining whether an individual column of the one or more columns of data corresponding to the set of textual records is successfully associated with a first level of the plurality of levels of the schema types and, in response, associating a schema type represented by the first level with the individual column of the one or more columns of data corresponding to the plurality of textual records.