In Snowflake, does referencing a previous query's results via RESULT_SCAN incur compute credits?

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Only if the previous query ran within 1 minute
• D. It costs compute credits if the result is large

Answer: (B)

Result_SCAN points you to a cached snapshot of a prior query’s results. Accessing that snapshot doesn’t cause the warehouse to re-execute any computations, so it doesn’t incur compute credits for the fetch. The only charges involved are storage costs for keeping the cached results, not compute. The size of the result or a specific time window doesn’t change the compute cost here, since you’re not re-running work—you’re reading an existing, precomputed result.