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How does query result caching actually work in Snowflake, and why are some of my identical repeat queries still spinning up new compute resources?

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How does query result caching actually work in Snowflake, and why are some of my identical repeat queries still spinning up new compute resources?
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Snowflake documentation persisted query results cache conditions reuse query result cache warehouse suspend identical queryGoogle ↗
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Snowflake documentation query result reuse conditions 24 hours USE_CACHED_RESULTGoogle ↗
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Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.

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Snowflake documentation persisted query results cache conditions reuse query result cache warehouse suspend identical query Google ↗
Snowflake documentation query result reuse conditions 24 hours USE_CACHED_RESULT Google ↗
  1. Using Persisted Query Results · docs.snowflake.com
  2. Using Persisted Query Results · docs.snowflake.com
  3. Optimizing the warehouse cache · docs.snowflake.com

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