Question

A data engineering team on Snowflake Standard Edition wants to enable materialized views to speed up repeated aggregate queries on a large reporting table. Their manager asks what is the minimum Snowflake edition required to use materialized views, and how this compares to the team's current edition. Which statement is correct?

Accepted Answer

Materialized views require at least Enterprise Edition, so the team must upgrade from Standard.

Answer

Materialized views are available in all editions including Standard, so no upgrade is needed.

Answer

Materialized views require Business Critical Edition because they involve additional data replication.

Answer

Materialized views are only available in Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) for security reasons.