Release Notes - Snowflake Data Validation CLI

Version 1.2.0 (January 2026)

What’s New

  • View Validation: Full support for validating database views alongside tables
    • Available only for SQL SERVER.
    • Configure views in a dedicated views: section in your YAML configuration
    • Supports all table configuration options including column selection, filtering, column mappings, and chunking
    • Override target database, schema, or view name with target_database, target_schema, and target_name options
    • Views are validated by creating temporary tables internally to materialize schema for comparison

Usage Example

# Views are configured similarly to tables
views:
  - fully_qualified_name: INVENTORY.dbo.INTEGRATION_TEST_VIEW_1
    target_name: INTEGRATION_TEST_VIEW_1
    use_column_selection_as_exclude_list: false
    column_selection_list: []
    index_column_list: [ORDERID]
    target_index_column_list: [ORDERID]
  • Snowflake to Snowflake Validation: Full support for validating data between Snowflake instances.

Version 1.0.2 (December 2025)

What’s New

  • New Command: column-partitioning-helper - Interactive helper to partition wide tables by columns for more efficient validation of tables with many columns

Changes

  • Command Renamed: table-partitioning-helper has been renamed to row-partitioning-helper for improved clarity on its purpose

Version 1.0.1 (December 2025)

What’s New

This release introduces an enhancement to improve the CLI user experience whenaccessing help documentation.

Example

# These commands no longer create log files
sdv --help
sdv sqlserver --help
sdv sqlserver run-validation --help

# These commands still create log files normally
sdv sqlserver run-validation --data-validation-config-file config.yaml

Documentation

For complete information about using the Snowflake Data Validation CLI, refer to:

Support

If you encounter any issues or have questions: