https://support.snowflake.net/s/article/understanding-micro-partitions-and-data-clustering
blog-post-understanding-micro-partitioning-in-snowflake#micro-partition-contiguous1 2In Snowflake, all data in tables is automatically divided into micro-partitions, which are contiguous units of storage. Snowflake is columnar-based and horizontally partitioned, meaning a row of data is stored in the same micro-partition. blog-post-understanding-micro-partitioning-in-snowflake#micro-partition-contiguous1 2