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Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2023
Applicant:

Snowflake Inc., Bozeman, MT (US);

Inventors:

Selcuk Aya, Izmir, TR;

Thierry Cruanes, San Mateo, CA (US);

Istvan Cseri, Seattle, WA (US);

Benoit Dageville, San Mateo, CA (US);

Marcia Feitel, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Steven P. Herbert, Woodinville, WA (US);

Xinglian Liu, Redmond, WA (US);

James Malone, Seattle, WA (US);

Subramanian Muralidhar, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Muthunagappan Muthuraman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Polita Paulus, Kirkland, WA (US);

Marianne Shaw, Bothell, WA (US);

Nileema Shingte, San Mateo, CA (US);

Wai Sing Wong, Bellevue, WA (US);

Jiaqi Yan, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

Snowflake Inc., Bozeman, MT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/25 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2282 (2019.01); G06F 16/2379 (2019.01); G06F 16/258 (2019.01);
Abstract

The subject technology receives a command to commit a table in a different table format on an external volume. The subject technology generates a first snapshot of the table on internal storage. The subject technology generates a first list of metadata files on the internal storage. The subject technology generates, based on the first list of metadata files, a first set of metadata files on the internal storage. The subject technology generates a second snapshot of the table on the external volume. The subject technology generates a second list of metadata files on the external volume. The subject technology generates, based on the second list of metadata files, a second set of metadata files on the external volume. The subject technology generates a first set of data files in a different file format on the external volume.


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