Which of the following describes how clustering keys work in Snowflake?

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Clustering keys sort the designated columns over time, without blocking DML operations

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Clustering keys update the micro-partitions in place with a full sort, and impact the DML operations.

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Clustering keys create a distributed, parallel data structure of pointers to a table's rows and columns

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Clustering keys establish a hashed key on each node of a virtual warehouse to optimize joins at run-time

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