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Actual exam question from Snowflake's SnowPro Core
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A Snowflake query took 40 minutes to run. The results indicate that ‘Bytes spilled to local storage’ was a large number.

What is the issue and how can it be resolved?

  • A. The warehouse is too large. Decrease the size of the warehouse to reduce the spillage.
  • B. The warehouse is too small. Increase the size of the warehouse to reduce the spillage.
  • C. The Snowflake console has timed-out. Contact Snowflake Support.
  • D. The warehouse consists of a single cluster. Use a multi-cluster warehouse to reduce the spillage.
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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

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Renvis
Highly Voted 1 year, 4 months ago
Answer is B. warehouse size should be increased. multi cluster warehouse will just help in increasing paralelism.
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BobFar
Most Recent 8 months, 1 week ago
The correct answer is B.
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MultiCloudIronMan
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Selected Answer: B
B is correct
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KarBiswa
1 year, 3 months ago
https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/performance-query-warehouse-memory#:~:text=When%20memory%20spillage,causing%20the%20spillage.
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bar_ser
1 year, 3 months ago
Selected Answer: B
B is correct https://github.com/dbt-labs/docs.getdbt.com/discussions/1550 When you have spillage, increasing warehouse size almost always helps.
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styx71
1 year, 3 months ago
The answer should be B since this needs to be solved by scale up, not scale out.
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muks86
1 year, 4 months ago
Answer is D
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