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Snowflake - Interview Questions
What is the virtual warehouse?
In Snowflake, a virtual warehouse, often known as a "warehouse," is a collection of computational resources. A virtual warehouse provides the resources required for the users like CPU, memory, and temporary storage to perform multiple Snowflake operations:
 
Execute the SQL SELECT statements that necessitate the use of computing resources  (e.g. retrieving rows from tables and views).

DML operations include :

* Updating table rows (DELETE , INSERT , UPDATE).
* Data Loading into tables (COPY INTO <table>).
* Data unloading from tables (COPY INTO <location>).
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