Properties
A human-readable name for the component.
Select one of these options:
- Create: The default option. Creates a new file format. This will generate an error if a file format with the same name already exists, but will never destroy existing data.
- Create if not exists: This will only create a new format if one of the same name does not already exist.
- Drop: Drop the file format of the given name. This is useful for deleting file formats. This will fail if a file format of the given name does not exist.
- Drop if exists: Drop the file format of the given name. This is useful for deleting file formats. This will succeed even if a file format of the given name does not exist.
- Replace: Creates a new format and replaces any format of the same name, overwriting it.
The Snowflake database that the newly created file format will be stored in. The special value
[Environment Default] uses the schema defined in the environment. Read Database, Schema, and Share DDL to learn more.The Snowflake schema that the newly created file format will be stored in. The special value
[Environment Default] uses the schema defined in the environment. Read Database, Schema, and Share DDL to learn more.The name of the file format being created.
Whether the input file is compressed in gzip format, BROTLI, BZ2, DEFLATE, RAW_DEFLATE, ZSTD, or not compressed at all.
The delimiter to be used that separates records (rows) in the file. Defaults to newline. \ can also signify a newline. \\r can signify a carriage return.
The delimiter to be used that separates fields (columns) in the file.
The number of rows at the top of the file to ignore. Defaults to 0.
By default, blank lines encountered in data files produce an end-of-record error. Set this property to True to skip blank lines without producing an error.
Defaults to auto. This can be used to manually specify a date format.
Defaults to auto. This can be used to manually specify a time format.
Defaults to auto. This can be used to manually specify a time format.
Single character string used as the escape character for any field values. Accepts common escape sequences, octal values, or hex values. Also accepts a value of NONE (default).
Single character string used as the escape character for unenclosed field values. Accepts common escape sequences, octal values, or hex values. Also accepts a value of NONE (default). If a character is specified in the Escape field, it will override this field.
If True, removes trailing and leading whitespace from the input data.
A character that is used to enclose strings. Can be single quote (’) or double quote (”) or NONE. The default is NONE. Note that the character chosen can be escaped by that same character.
Enter one or more strings that will be replaced with NULL if found in the source. Only applies to columns that are nullable.
If True, generate an error if the number of delimited columns in the input does not match that of the table. If False, extra columns are not loaded into the table and missing columns are recorded as NULL in the table.
If True, cast empty fields as NULL. If False, cast empty fields as the corresponding column type with blank data.
If True, will replace invalid UTF-8 characters with the Unicode replacement character.If False (the default), the load operation produces an error when invalid UTF-8 character encoding is detected.
Select the character set of the source data when loading data into a table.