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Collation support
Collation allows you to specify alternative rules for comparing text strings, which can be used to compare and sort data according to a particular language or other user - specified rules.
How to convert your input data to UTF- 8 before sending it to Snowflake
Snowflake supports three binary formats or encoding schemes: hex, base64, and UTF - 8. Snowflake requires that incoming data files use this encoding. Attempting to load files into Snowflake tables that do not comply with these can result…