SFTP Bulk to Snowflake Integration

How Datrise loads SFTP Bulk into Snowflake

Datrise syncs SFTP Bulk's files, directories, rows, file batches, modification timestamps, and file formats into Snowflake as a typed table per source entity. Flexible or custom fields land in VARIANT columns, and timestamps such as created, updated, and status changes are typed as TIMESTAMP_TZ.

Sync is incremental: Datrise uses staged loads merged on stable id with MERGE, so credits scale with change volume, not table size, so re-runs update only what changed. Automatic micro-partitioning, with optional clustering keys on high-cardinality ids. Snowflake upper-cases unquoted identifiers, so Datrise standardizes on lower-case quoted names to keep column references stable.

Ideal for central analytics warehouses feeding BI and AI workloads.

Endpoints

SFTP Bulk: Bulk file drops delivered over SFTP.

Snowflake: Cloud data warehouse with separated compute and storage.

How SFTP Bulk entities map to Snowflake

SFTP Bulk entity	Snowflake object	Notes
files	`sftp_bulk_files`	id PK · custom fields → VARIANT columns
directories	`sftp_bulk_directories`	id PK · linked to sftp_bulk_files
rows	`sftp_bulk_rows`	id PK · linked to sftp_bulk_files
file batches	`sftp_bulk_file_batches`	id PK · linked to sftp_bulk_files

FAQ

How does Datrise handle SFTP Bulk's custom fields in Snowflake?

Flexible values are stored as VARIANT columns, so new fields don't require a migration; strongly-typed fields — dates, numbers, and references — are promoted to native Snowflake types.

How does the SFTP Bulk to Snowflake sync stay up to date?

It runs incrementally — Datrise uses staged loads merged on stable id with MERGE, so credits scale with change volume, not table size.

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