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What is Snowflake?

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  1. What is Snowflake?
  2. What is a reasonable factor a team would weigh when choosing Snowflake specifically over a traditional self-managed data warehouse (like a large on-premise or self-hosted PostgreSQL-based analytics setup) for large-scale analytics?
  3. What is "Zero-Copy Cloning" in Snowflake?
  4. What is the purpose of Snowflake's "external tables" feature?
  5. What is "micro-partitioning" in Snowflake, and how does it relate to query performance?
  6. What is the purpose of Snowflake's role-based access control (RBAC) system?
  7. What role does the concept of "clustering keys" play in Snowflake, given that Snowflake automatically manages micro-partitioning?
  8. What is "Snowpipe" used for?
  9. What is a "virtual warehouse" in Snowflake?
  10. What does Snowflake's billing model typically charge for, reflecting the storage/compute separation?
  11. What is "Time Travel" in Snowflake?
  12. What does Snowflake's automatic query result caching provide?
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