Internal (i.e. Snowflake) named stages cannot be cloned.

• A. False
• B. It depends
• C. Not documented
• D. True

Answer: (D)

Snowflake cloning is a zero-copy mechanism that creates a new object sharing the same underlying data, but it only applies to objects that have a stable metadata and data representation that can be versioned independently (like databases, schemas, and tables). Internal named stages, on the other hand, are simply pointers to files stored in Snowflake’s internal storage. They aren’t data objects with their own writable, versioned data set, so there isn’t a concept of creating a separate, cloned stage. Because of that, internal named stages cannot be cloned. If you need a similar setup, you’d create a new stage and configure it to point to the same or a new location as needed.