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A software update knocked out Snowflake’s cloud data platform in 10 of its 23 global regions for 13 hours on December 16, leaving customers unable to execute queries or ingest data.
Customers saw “SQL execution internal error” messages when trying to query their data warehouses, according to Snowflake’s incident report. The outage also disrupted Snowpipe and Snowpipe Streaming file ingestion, and data clustering appeared unhealthy...

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