2023_01 Bundle (Generally Enabled)

Bundle History

  1. Introduced in the 7.2 release (Jan 19-20) with status Disabled by Default.

  2. Status changed in the 7.7 release (Mar 6-7) to Enabled by Default.

  3. Status changed in the 7.13 release (Apr 20-24) to Generally Enabled; account admins can no longer enable or disable the bundle.

List of Changes

Important

This change list has been compiled using reasonable efforts. We are not always able to determine the full customer impact of a behavior change beforehand. The change list may not include all changes in a release, for example, last minute or emergency changes. In addition, behavior changes that are determined to have minimal to no user impact may not be pre-announced.

If you have any questions about the changes in this bundle, please contact Snowflake Support.

Security Changes

Additional Notes

SHOW INTEGRATIONS Command: USAGE Privilege Required to View Output

System Functions: MONITOR SECURITY Privilege Required to Execute Certain System Functions

Query History: Redacted SQL Upon Syntax Error

SQL Changes — General

Additional Notes

Materialized Views: Using Time Travel to Query Historical Data Produces Expected Error Message

SQL Changes — Commands & Functions

Additional Notes

SHOW Commands: New Column Added to Output for Certain Commands

SHOW ORGANIZATION ACCOUNTS Command: New Column in Output

ARRAY_CAT Function: Changes to NULL Handling

ARRAY_POSITION Function: Changes to Finding the Position of a NULL Value

GET_DDL Function: Tags Set on Streams, Tasks, and Pipes Included in Output

SQL Changes — Usage Views & Information Schema Views / Table Functions

Additional Notes

Account Usage: New and Changed Columns in Certain Views

QUERY_HISTORY View (Account Usage): New Columns Added

REPLICATION_DATABASES View (Information Schema): Changes to Column Values

TABLES View (Account Usage): Changes to the RETENTION_TIME Column

TABLES, VIEWS, and EXTERNAL_TABLES Views (Account Usage, Information Schema): New Columns Added

TASK_HISTORY View (Account Usage): Change to Status for Failed and Auto-suspended Tasks

Snowflake CLI, Connectors, Drivers, and SQL API Changes

Additional Notes

Some Unused Data No Longer Sent to Drivers, Connectors, and Clients

Data Pipeline Changes

Additional Notes

Streams: CREATE STREAM with INSERT_ONLY = TRUE Not Allowed on Non-external Tables

Temporary Tables: Changes to Table Creation in Schemas (Pending)

Streams: Joins on Views for Append-only Streams No Longer Produce Unexpected Results

Task Parameters Preserved When Cloning Tasks

Task Parameters Preserved When Cloning Databases, Schemas, and Tables

Data Governance Changes

Additional Notes

Tag Must Exist When Calling System Functions

Query History: Redacted SQL Upon Syntax Error

Replication Changes

Additional Notes

Failover Groups: Change to GRANTED_ON Column in SHOW GRANTS Output

Integrations: Read-only Secondary Integrations Enforced