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    • SQL data types reference
    • SQL command reference
    • Function and stored procedure reference
        1. Summary of functions
          • All functions (alphabetical)
            • Aggregate
            • AISQL
              1. Scalar functions
                1. AI_CLASSIFY
                  • AI_COMPLETE
                  • AI_EMBED
                    • AI_EXTRACT
                      • AI_FILTER
                        • AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT
                          • AI_SENTIMENT
                            • AI_SIMILARITY
                              • AI_TRANSCRIBE
                                • CLASSIFY_TEXT (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                  • COMPLETE (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                    • COMPLETE multimodal (images) (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                      • EMBED_TEXT_768 (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                        • EMBED_TEXT_1024 (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                          • ENTITY_SENTIMENT (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                            • EXTRACT_ANSWER (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                              • FINETUNE (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                              • PARSE_DOCUMENT (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                • SENTIMENT (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                  • SUMMARIZE (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                    • TRANSLATE (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                    • Aggregate functions
                                                      1. AI_AGG
                                                        • AI_SUMMARIZE_AGG
                                                        • Helper functions
                                                          1. COUNT_TOKENS (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                            • SEARCH_PREVIEW (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                              • SPLIT_TEXT_MARKDOWN_HEADER (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                                • SPLIT_TEXT_RECURSIVE_CHARACTER (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                                  • TRY_COMPLETE (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                                • Bitwise expression
                                                                • Conditional expression
                                                                • Context
                                                                • Conversion
                                                                • Data generation
                                                                • Data metric
                                                                • Date & time
                                                                • Differential privacy
                                                                • Encryption
                                                                • File
                                                                • Geospatial
                                                                • Hash
                                                                • Metadata
                                                                • ML Model Monitors
                                                                • Notification
                                                                • Numeric
                                                                • Organization users and organization user groups
                                                                • Regular expressions
                                                                • Semi-structured and structured data
                                                                • Snowpark Container Services
                                                                • String & binary
                                                                • System
                                                                • Table
                                                                • Vector
                                                                • Window
                                                                • Stored procedures
                                                                    1. Cortex Powered Object Descriptions
                                                                    2. AI_GENERATE_TABLE_DESC
                                                                      • Data classification
                                                                      • ASSOCIATE_SEMANTIC_CATEGORY_TAGS
                                                                        • SYSTEM$CLASSIFY
                                                                          • SYSTEM$CLASSIFY_SCHEMA
                                                                            • SYSTEM$CANCEL_CLASSIFY_SCHEMA
                                                                              • Data sharing and collaboration
                                                                              • SYSTEM$REQUEST_LISTING_AND_WAIT
                                                                                • Default event table
                                                                                • ADD_ROW_ACCESS_POLICY_ON_EVENTS_VIEW
                                                                                  • DROP_ROW_ACCESS_POLICY_ON_EVENTS_VIEW
                                                                                    • Differential privacy
                                                                                    • RESET_PRIVACY_BUDGET
                                                                                      • Notifications
                                                                                      • SYSTEM$SEND_SNOWFLAKE_NOTIFICATION
                                                                                        • SYSTEM$SEND_EMAIL
                                                                                          • Semantic views
                                                                                          • SYSTEM$CREATE_SEMANTIC_VIEW_FROM_YAML
                                                                                            • Synthetic data
                                                                                            • GENERATE_SYNTHETIC_DATA
                                                                                      • Class reference
                                                                                      • Scripting reference
                                                                                      • General reference
                                                                                      • API reference
                                                                                        ReferenceFunction and stored procedure referenceStored procedures

                                                                                        Stored procedures¶

                                                                                        Snowflake provides stored procedures to facilitate using certain Snowflake features. To find the stored procedures that are associated with a particular Snowflake Class, see SQL class reference.

                                                                                        Use CALL to call a stored procedure. For example:

                                                                                        CALL SYSTEM$CLASSIFY('hr.tables.empl_info', null);
                                                                                        
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                                                                                        Snowflake supports the following stored procedures, grouped by feature:

                                                                                        Feature

                                                                                        Stored procedure

                                                                                        Cortex Powered Object Descriptions

                                                                                        • AI_GENERATE_TABLE_DESC

                                                                                        Data classification

                                                                                        • ASSOCIATE_SEMANTIC_CATEGORY_TAGS

                                                                                        • SYSTEM$CLASSIFY

                                                                                        • SYSTEM$CLASSIFY_SCHEMA

                                                                                        • SYSTEM$CANCEL_CLASSIFY_SCHEMA

                                                                                        Data sharing and collaboration

                                                                                        • SYSTEM$REQUEST_LISTING_AND_WAIT

                                                                                        Default event table

                                                                                        • ADD_ROW_ACCESS_POLICY_ON_EVENTS_VIEW

                                                                                        • DROP_ROW_ACCESS_POLICY_ON_EVENTS_VIEW

                                                                                        Differential privacy

                                                                                        • RESET_PRIVACY_BUDGET

                                                                                        Notifications

                                                                                        • SYSTEM$SEND_SNOWFLAKE_NOTIFICATION

                                                                                        • SYSTEM$SEND_EMAIL

                                                                                        Semantic views

                                                                                        • SYSTEM$CREATE_SEMANTIC_VIEW_FROM_YAML

                                                                                        Synthetic data

                                                                                        • GENERATE_SYNTHETIC_DATA

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