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Snowflake data types

The following table shows the Snowflake data types that are supported when using Qlik Compose and the default mapping to Qlik Compose data types.

For information on how to view the data type that is mapped in the data warehouse, see the section for the data warehouse database you are using.

Data type mappings

Snowflake data types

Qlik Compose data types

NUMBER

DECIMAL

FLOAT

DECIMAL

VARCHAR

VARCHAR

BINARY

BYTE

BOOLEAN VARCHAR (5)
DATE DATE
TIME TIME
TIMESTAMP_NTZ DATETIME(9)
TIMESTAMP_LTZ DATETIME(9)
TIMESTAMP_TZ DATETIME(9)
VARIANT JSON or XML as determined by the data source settings.

OBJECT

N/A

ARRAY

N/A

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