Stale and Unused Tables

September 4, 2025

This RADEN video explains how to identify and manage unused or stale data in Snowflake.

  • Highlights stale and unused data that consumes storage, complicates governance, and may hinder data trust.
  • Provides updates on tables not updated in the last 90 days, indicating waste, and tables not updated in the last 30 days but updated in the last seven days, which may be stale.
  • It offers actions like excluding sample data, archiving tables, or setting up data freshness or data quality monitoring to optimize data pipelines and reduce the burden of old, unused data.
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