Patent ID: 11893029
Assignee: SNOWFLAKE INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving a registration request for a per-account group of files, the registration request including identification information for the per-account group of files and a storage location of the per-account group of files;
accessing the per-account group of files based on the registration request, the per-account group of files being stored in a first format;
deduping and validating the per-account group of files using sequencing information included in the per-account group of files;
committing the per-account group of files stored in the storage location and making data in the per-account group of files in the first format accessible for query processing before the data is ingested into one or more source tables;
generating a hybrid table for query processing, the hybrid table including the committed data in the first format and data from the one or more source tables;
receiving a query prior to the data being ingested;
executing the query using the hybrid table to generate results for the query including:
converting the committed data from the first format into a common format;
converting the data from the one or more source tables into the common format;
joining the committed data in the common format and the data from the one or more source tables in the common format to generate joined data; and
executing the query based on the joined data; and
ingesting the data into the one or more source tables in a second format.