Semantic views

Semantic views is a Snowflake data governance capability, introduced 2025.

A schema-level object that stores business concepts - logical tables, facts, metrics and dimensions - in the database itself, so one definition serves both SQL and AI.

• The semantic layer stopped being a BI tool's private file and became a database object you can grant privileges on and query with SELECT. 🔗
• The same object is what Cortex Analyst and Cortex Agents point at, so the metric a human queries is the metric the agent answers from. 🔗

Category

Data governance

Introduced

2025🔗

Also known as

CREATE SEMANTIC VIEW, semantic model

Verified

2026-09-12