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What is Data Retention Period in Snowflake?
* The data retention period is an important aspect of Snowflake Time Travel.
 
* When data in a table is modified, such as deletion or discarding an object holding data, Snowflake saves the data's previous state. The data retention period determines the number of days that this historical data is kept and, as a result, Time Travel operations (SELECT, CREATE... CLONE, UNDROP) can be performed on it.
 
* The standard retention period is one day (24 hours) and is enabled by default for all Snowflake accounts.
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