Snowflake integrates Duo Security to support Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). This feature provides increased login security for users connecting to Snowflake, and it is managed completely by Snowflake without the need for users to sign up separately with Duo4.

In Snowflake, Streams are the objects that track Data Manipulation Language (DML) changes made to tables, such as inserts, updates, and deletes. Streams record these changes along with metadata about each change, enabling actions to be taken using the changed data. This process is known as change data capture (CDC)2.

Explanation
When creating roles that will serve as the owners of securable objects in the system, Snowflake recommends creating a hierarchy of custom roles, with the top-most custom role assigned to the system role SYSADMIN.
This role structure allows system administrators to manage all objects in the account, such as warehouses and database objects, while restricting management of users and roles to the USERADMIN role.

The Snowflake Account_Usage.Metering_History view is used to gather the hourly credit usage for an account. This view provides details on the credits consumed by various services within Snowflake for the last
365 days1.