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For AI agents: documentation index at /llms.txt — fetch to discover all Snowflake documentation pages. Markdown version of this page: /en/sql-reference-stored-procedures.md
  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_MULTI_EMBED
                          • AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT
                            • AI_REDACT
                              • AI_SENTIMENT
                                • AI_SIMILARITY
                                  • AI_SUMMARIZE_AGG
                                    • AI_TRANSCRIBE
                                      • AI_TRANSLATE
                                        • FINETUNE (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                        • SENTIMENT (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                          • SUMMARIZE (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
                                                                • 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
                                                                                                        • DEREGISTER_EXTENSION
                                                                                                          • REGISTER_EXTENSION
                                                                                                    • 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

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