What happens to pipes referencing internal stages during cloning?

• A. They are not cloned
• B. They are cloned
• C. They are renamed
• D. They are deleted

Answer: (A)

Zero-copy cloning copies the metadata of objects, not the underlying storage objects. A pipe stores a reference to an internal stage, and that stage is a storage resource managed by Snowflake. When you clone, Snowflake does not duplicate internal stages, so the cloned pipe continues to reference the same internal stage rather than creating a new one. If you need the clone to use a separate stage, you’d have to create that stage in the clone and update the pipe to point to it.