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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. Scalar functions
                1. AI_CLASSIFY
                  • AI_COMPLETE
                  • AI_COUNT_TOKENS
                    • AI_EMBED
                      • AI_EXTRACT
                      • AI_FILTER
                        • AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT
                          • AI_REDACT
                            • AI_SENTIMENT
                              • AI_SIMILARITY
                                • AI_TRANSCRIBE
                                  • AI_TRANSLATE
                                    • 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. AGENT_RUN (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                                • COUNT_TOKENS (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX)
                                                                  • DATA_AGENT_RUN (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
                                                                                                      • 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);
                                                                                                    
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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

                                                                                                    Trust Center

                                                                                                    • REGISTER_EXTENSION

                                                                                                    • DEREGISTER_EXTENSION

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