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Week 53 – Intermediate

One of the quieter releases into public preview is that we can now infer schemas for CSVs. To test this follow the following instructions:

  1. Create an internal stage

    create stage frosty_stage;
  2. Create a csv file format
    create or replace file format frosty_csv
    field_optionally_enclosed_by = '"'
    skip_header = 1;
  3. PUT the following csv file into that internal stage. Download Here

Now you need to infer the schema and produce the following:

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  2. I actually went on to create the table with the inferred schema and loaded the data by parsing the csv header

    • Solution URL - https://github.com/canonicalized/FrostyFriday/blob/main/WEEK53.sql

  3. thanks for the challenge — had to `put` the file outside my solution, but good to explore these new functionalities (also useful to combina with other metadata functions!)

    • Solution URL - https://github.com/dsmdavid/frostyfridays-sf/blob/main/models/challenge_53.sql

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