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Use these for ETL/ELT processing. They don't have a "Fail-safe" period, which saves on storage costs for temporary data.

Traditional star schemas work well, but Snowflake allows you to go further. Because joins are highly optimized (especially with PUBLIC / PRIVATE links), you can use without pre-joining everything into a monstrous wide table.