September 25, 2025: FILE data type (General Availability)

The FILE data type enables multimodal AISQL workflows with unstructured data stored on internal or external stages. FILE values provide a way to reference files without encapsulating the actual file content. FILE objects let you:

  • Store references to files in tables and pass them to AISQL functions like AI_COMPLETE, AI_CLASSIFY, AI_EXTRACT, AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT, and AI_TRANSCRIBE for automated multimodal processing workflows.

  • Avoid duplicating file data and process it more efficiently by creating ad passing FILE values as references.

  • Integrate with existing data architectures by combining DIRECTORY functions with TO_FILE to create FILE references for entire collections of files for batch processing.

For more information, see the FILE data type and the TO_FILE function.

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