How to create a SQL User Defined Function in Snowflake

This recipe helps you create a SQL User Defined Function in Snowflake

Recipe Objective: How to create a SQL User Defined Function in Snowflake?

Snowflake is one of the few enterprise-ready cloud data warehouses that brings simplicity without sacrificing features. It automatically scales, both up and down, to get the right balance of performance vs. cost. Snowflake's claim to fame is that it separates computers from storage. This is significant because almost every other database, Redshift included, combines the two, meaning you must size for your largest workload and incur the cost that comes with it. This scenario will teach us how to create a SQL User Defined Function (UDF) that evaluates an arbitrary SQL expression and returns either scalar or tabular results.

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System requirements :

Step 1: Log in to the account

We need to log in to the snowflake account. Go to snowflake.com and then log in by providing your credentials. Follow the steps provided in the link above.

Step 2: Create a Database in Snowflake

We can create it in two ways:  using the CREATE DATABASE statement.

Note: You do not need to create a schema in the database because each database created in Snowflake contains a default public schema.

Syntax of the statement:

create or replace database [database-name] ;

Example of the statement:

create or replace database dezyre_test ;

The output of the above statement: As you can see, the above statement is successfully run in the below image

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Step 3: Select Database

To select the database which you created earlier, we will use the "use" statement

Syntax of the statement:

Use database [database-name];

Example of the statement:

use database dezyre_test;

Step 4: Creating SQL UDF

Here we are going to know how we create a user-defined function. For example, we will create a user-defined function that takes two values as input and returns the output in this scenario.

Example of Creating function:

create function multiply_twonum( a number , b number) returns number as 'm * n';

The output of the above statement:

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Using the above function run an instance by providing the two values to get the output as shown below

select multiply_twonum(10,10);

The output of the function returns:

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Conclusion

Here we learned to create a SQL User Defined Function in Snowflake.

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