Question 129 - ARA-C01 discussion

Snowpipe is a service that automates and optimizes the loading of data from external stages into Snowflake tables. Snowpipe uses a queue to ingest files as they become available in the stage.Snowpipe also provides REST endpoints to load data and retrieve load history reports1. The loadHistoryScan endpoint returns the history of files that have been ingested by Snowpipe within a specified time range.The endpoint accepts the following parameters2: pipe: The fully-qualified name of the pipe to query. startTimeInclusive: The start of the time range to query, in ISO 8601 format. The value must be within the past 14 days. endTimeExclusive: The end of the time range to query, in ISO 8601 format. The value must be later than the start time and within the past 14 days. recentFirst: A boolean flag that indicates whether to return the most recent files first or last. The default value is false, which means the oldest files are returned first. showSkippedFiles: A boolean flag that indicates whether to include files that were skipped by Snowpipe in the response. The default value is false, which means only files that were loaded are returned. The loadHistoryScan endpoint can be used to keep a log of data load history by calling it periodically with a suitable time range. The best option among the choices is D, which is to call loadHistoryScan every 10 minutes for a 15-minute time range. This option ensures that the endpoint is called frequently enough to capture the latest files that have been ingested, and that the time range is wide enough to avoid missing any files that may have been delayed or retried by Snowpipe.The other options are either too infrequent, too narrow, or use the wrong endpoint3.

1: Introduction to Snowpipe | Snowflake Documentation

2: loadHistoryScan | Snowflake Documentation

3: Monitoring Snowpipe Load History | Snowflake Documentation