Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing platform that provides a flexible and scalable solution for storing and analyzing large amounts of data

Snowflake Time Travel is an interesting tool that allows you to access data from any point in the past.


For example, if you have an Employee table, and you inadvertently delete it, you can utilize Time Travel to go back 5 minutes and retrieve the data. Snowflake Time Travel allows you to Access Historical Data (that is, data that has been updated or removed) at any point in time. It is an effective tool for doing the following tasks:


  • Query Data that has been changed or deleted in the past.
  • Make clones of complete Tables, Schemas, and Databases at or before certain dates.
  • Tables, Schemas, and Databases that have been deleted should be restored.