You are developing a data pipeline in Snowflake Notebooks. One cell contains Python code that uses the Snowpark DataFrame API to perform several data transformations. After executing the cell, you obs

Question

Options

• AThe user manually canceled the cell execution using the Notebook interface.
• BThe Snowflake warehouse was suspended due to inactivity, interrupting the Snowpark DataFrame
• CAn error occurred during the Snowpark DataFrame operations, triggering an automatic
• DThe Notebook environment encountered a memory error due to the size of the Snowpark
• EA Snowflake administrator terminated the query associated with the Snowpark session.

• A
  77% (20)
• C
  8% (2)
• D
  15% (4)

Explanation

A 'Canceled' status in a Snowflake Notebook cell specifically means the underlying query or session was explicitly stopped, not that it errored out. The three valid causes are: (A) The user manually clicked the cancel/stop button in the Notebook UI, which sends a cancellation signal to the running query; (B) The Snowflake virtual warehouse was auto-suspended due to an inactivity timeout (if it auto-suspended between when the cell started and when the Snowpark lazy evaluation triggered execution), which would terminate the session and cancel in-flight operations; and (E) A Snowflake administrator used ALTER SESSION or SYSTEM$CANCEL_QUERY / Snowsight's query kill feature to terminate the underlying query, resulting in a canceled status visible in the notebook. Option C is incorrect - exceptions in Snowpark operations produce an 'Error' status with a traceback, not 'Canceled'. Option D is also incorrect - memory errors manifest as kernel crashes or error statuses, not 'Canceled'.

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