Snowflake Vs MS-SQL - Part 114 - Period Data Type


Period Data Type

In warehouse, most of the time you are saving a record with start_date and end_date. If you want to filter a record based on these dates then you have to use both date columns.

MS-SQL Server

We can use where clause as below:



In Snowflake, we can use a similar approach as above; however,  we can use PERIOD DATA TYPE as follows:



For more details, refer to the Period-DataType or Period-Function sections. You can see multiple use cases of Period Data Type.


Yogesh Shinde
Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

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