Snowflake Information Schema is the per-database data dictionary
Snowflake Information Schema
Snowflake docs on INFORMATION_SCHEMA views and table functions for database and account-level object metadata.
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Snowflake Information Schema | Snowflake Documentation
The documentation describes the Snowflake Information Schema as system-defined views and table functions that supply metadata about objects in an account. Each database automatically gets a read-only INFORMATION_SCHEMA with views for objects in that database and for account-level objects, plus table functions for historical and usage data. ANSI “catalog” maps to Snowflake database.
Data engineering and governance teams query this schema as a consistent catalog API instead of scraping UI state. Snowflake-specific views cover non-ANSI objects such as stages and file formats; the extract begins a typed list of views marked when Snowflake-specific.
A standard information schema is shared, machine-readable structure about schemas, objects, and privileges. That metadata layer is what contracts, semantic layers, and agents need to discover and reason over warehouse contents uniformly.
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