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  1. Overview
    • SQL data types reference
    • SQL command reference
    • Function and stored procedure reference
        1. Summary of functions
          • All functions (alphabetical)
            • Aggregate
            • AI Functions
              1. AI_AGG
                • AI_CLASSIFY
                  • AI_COMPLETE
                  • AI_COUNT_TOKENS
                    • AI_EMBED
                      • AI_EXTRACT
                      • AI_FILTER
                        • AI_FUNCTION_EVALUATION
                          • AI_FUNCTION_OPTIMIZATION
                            • AI_MULTI_EMBED
                              • AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT
                                • AI_REDACT
                                  • AI_SENTIMENT
                                    • AI_SIMILARITY
                                      • AI_SUMMARIZE
                                        • AI_SUMMARIZE_AGG
                                          • AI_TRANSCRIBE
                                            • AI_TRANSLATE
                                              • FINETUNE (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                              • SENTIMENT (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                • Helper functions
                                                  1. AGENT_RUN (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                    • DATA_AGENT_RUN (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                      • THREAD_MESSAGES (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                        • EXECUTE_AI_EVALUATION
                                                          • GET_AI_EVALUATION_DATA (SNOWFLAKE.LOCAL)
                                                            • GET_AI_OBSERVABILITY_LOGS (SNOWFLAKE.LOCAL)
                                                              • GET_AI_OBSERVABILITY_EVENTS (SNOWFLAKE.LOCAL)
                                                                • GET_AI_RECORD_TRACE (SNOWFLAKE.LOCAL)
                                                                  • SEARCH_PREVIEW (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                                    • SPLIT_TEXT_MARKDOWN_HEADER (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                                      • SPLIT_TEXT_RECURSIVE_CHARACTER (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
                                                                    • Period
                                                                    • 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
                                                                                          • Network security
                                                                                          • EVALUATE_CANDIDATE_NETWORK_POLICY
                                                                                            • RECOMMEND_NETWORK_POLICY
                                                                                              • Notifications
                                                                                              • SYSTEM$SEND_SNOWFLAKE_NOTIFICATION
                                                                                                • SYSTEM$SEND_EMAIL
                                                                                                  • Semantic views
                                                                                                  • SYSTEM$CREATE_SEMANTIC_VIEW_FROM_OSI_YAML
                                                                                                    • SYSTEM$CREATE_SEMANTIC_VIEW_FROM_OSSIE_YAML
                                                                                                      • SYSTEM$CREATE_SEMANTIC_VIEW_FROM_YAML
                                                                                                        • SYSTEM$MANAGE_SEMANTIC_VIEW_MATERIALIZATIONS_FROM_YAML
                                                                                                          • Synthetic data
                                                                                                          • GENERATE_SYNTHETIC_DATA
                                                                                                            • Trust Center
                                                                                                            • REGISTER_EXTENSION
                                                                                                              • DEREGISTER_EXTENSION
                                                                                                                • GET_AUTO_ENABLEMENT_STATUS
                                                                                                                  • UPDATE_AUTO_ENABLEMENT_STATUS
                                                                                                            • 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);
                                                                                                              

                                                                                                              Snowflake supports the following stored procedures, grouped by feature:

                                                                                                              FeatureStored 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
                                                                                                              Network security
                                                                                                              • EVALUATE_CANDIDATE_NETWORK_POLICY
                                                                                                              • RECOMMEND_NETWORK_POLICY
                                                                                                              Notifications
                                                                                                              • SYSTEM$SEND_SNOWFLAKE_NOTIFICATION
                                                                                                              • SYSTEM$SEND_EMAIL
                                                                                                              Semantic views- SYSTEM$CREATE_SEMANTIC_VIEW_FROM_YAML
                                                                                                              Synthetic data- GENERATE_SYNTHETIC_DATA
                                                                                                              Trust Center
                                                                                                              • REGISTER_EXTENSION
                                                                                                              • DEREGISTER_EXTENSION
                                                                                                              • GET_AUTO_ENABLEMENT_STATUS
                                                                                                              • UPDATE_AUTO_ENABLEMENT_STATUS

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