Stored Procedures

UDF is a reusable component defined by user to perform a specific task which can be called from a SQL statement.

The stored procedures in Snowflake runs either with caller’s or owner’s rights which defines the privileges with which the procedure executes.

Snowflake allows catching exceptions and their error information that occur in stored procedures by defining exceptions.

Snowflake allows storing the result set of a SELECT statement and return them as output in the form a table using RESULTSET.

Cursors allows you to loop through a set of rows of a query result set and perform same set of defined actions for each row individually.

Loops in Snowflake Stored Procedures enables you to execute a set of statements until a particular condition is satisfied.

IF ELSE, CASE statements in Snowflake Stored Procedures provides a way to execute a set of statements if a condition is met.

EXECUTE IMMEDIATE command in Snowflake executes SQL statements present in form a character string and returns the result.

A Variable is a named object which holds a value of a specific data type whose value can change during the stored procedure execution.

Stored procedures allow you to write procedural code that executes business logic by combining multiple SQL statements.