Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions in Snowflake

Sixteenth Chapter: Stored Procedures & User-Defined Functions for the SnowPro Core Certification

Gonzalo Fernandez Plaza
3 min readNov 1, 2021
Introduction to Stored Procedures & UDFs in Snowflake
Introduction to Stored Procedures & UDFs in Snowflake

Sometimes, we may want to perform operations that Snowflake does not allow us to do with the built-in, system-defined functions. This will not be a problem as we can use Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions. Let’s see them and understand their differences in one of the shortest chapters of the course!

  1. Introduction
  2. Stored Procedures
  3. User-Defined Functions (UDFs)
  4. User-Defined Table Functions (UDTFs)
  5. Typical Exam Questions

Remember that all the chapters from the course can be found in the following link:

INTRODUCTION

Store Procedures & User-Defined Functions (UDFs) are like functions in any other programming language. You can use JavaScript, SQL, Java, Python, and Scala to extend Snowflake functionality. The…

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Gonzalo Fernandez Plaza

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