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Glossary term

Virtual warehouse

Snowflake's unit of compute: a cluster that runs queries and uses credits only while running. It can suspend automatically when idle. ZopNight can schedule Snowflake warehouses to suspend and resume. Why it matters: Warehouse size and idle time largely decide a Snowflake bill.

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