MSCEWI1091

Create Index Not Supported

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Severity

Low

Description

Due to architectural reasons, Snowflake does not support indexes so, SnowConvert will comment out all the code related to the creation of indexes. Snowflake automatically creates micro-partitions for every table that help speed up the performance of DML operations, the user does not have to worry about creating or managing these micro-partitions.

Usually, this is enough to have a very good query performance however, there are ways to improve it by creating data clustering keys. Snowflake's official page provides more information about micro-partitions and data clustering.

Code Example

Input Code:

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX COL1_INDEX ILM (ADD POLICY OPTIMIZE AFTER 10 DAYS OF NO ACCESS) ON CLUSTER CLUSTER1
ONLINE USABLE DEFERRED INVALIDATION;

Output Code:

-- ** MSC-WARNING - MSCEWI1091 - CREATE INDEX NOT SUPPORTED. **
---- CREATE INDEX
--CREATE UNIQUE INDEX COL1_INDEX ILM (ADD POLICY OPTIMIZE AFTER 10 DAYS OF NO ACCESS) ON CLUSTER CLUSTER1
--ONLINE USABLE DEFERRED INVALIDATION

Recommendations

• Data clustering might be a way to speed up query performance on tables.

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