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<h1>Unsupported data types<a class="headerlink" href="#unsupported-data-types" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<p>Snowflake does not support the following data types:</p>
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<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Category</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Type</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Notes</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td rowspan="2"><p>LOB (Large Object)</p></td>
<td><p>BLOB</p></td>
<td><p>BINARY can be used instead; maximum of 8,388,608 bytes. For more information, see
<a class="reference internal" href="data-types-text"><span class="doc">String &amp; binary data types</span></a>.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>CLOB</p></td>
<td><p>VARCHAR can be used instead; maximum of 16,777,216 bytes (for singlebyte). For more information,
see <a class="reference internal" href="data-types-text"><span class="doc">String &amp; binary data types</span></a>.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td rowspan="2"><p>Other</p></td>
<td><p>ENUM</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>User-defined data types</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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Category	Type	Notes
LOB (Large Object)	BLOB	BINARY can be used instead; maximum of 8,388,608 bytes. For more information, see String & binary data types.
LOB (Large Object)	CLOB	VARCHAR can be used instead; maximum of 16,777,216 bytes (for singlebyte). For more information, see String & binary data types.
Other	ENUM
Other	User-defined data types

Unsupported data types¶