Do you generally configure Snowpipe? If you want to ingest files automatically into a table, do you set up Snowpipe?

Snowpipe is Snowflake’s continuous data ingestion service. To set it up you first create a stage (internal or external) that points to the location where files will arrive. Then you create a pipe object that contains a COPY INTO statement referencing that stage. Snowpipe uses a notification mechanism (S3 event notifications, Azure Event Grid, GCS Pub/Sub, or a REST API call) to trigger the pipe whenever a new file appears. The COPY statement loads the file into the target table. Snowpipe automatically handles schema evolution, file format detection, and error handling. You can monitor progress via the Snowpipe history view and adjust concurrency or retry settings as needed. The overall complexity is linear in the number of files processed, with minimal manual intervention once the pipeline is configured.