Explanation
According to the Snowflake documentation1, the AUTO_SUSPEND property specifies the number of seconds of inactivity after which a warehouse is automatically suspended. If the property is set to 0 or NULL, the warehouse never suspends automatically. For a warehouse that supports several dashboards, issuing various queries on the same database, setting AUTO_SUSPEND to 0 or NULL can help to keep the data cache warm, which means that the data used by the queries is already loaded into the warehouse memory and does not need to be fetched from the storage layer. This can improve the performance of similar queries that access the same data. Option A is incorrect because setting AUTO_SUSPEND to 0 or NULL does not save costs on warehouse shutdowns and startups, but rather increases the costs by keeping the warehouse running continuously. Option B is incorrect because setting AUTO_SUSPEND to 0 or NULL does not run the warehouse as little as possible, but rather runs the warehouse as much as possible. Option D is incorrect because setting AUTO_SUSPEND to 0 or NULL does not affect the query result cache, which is a separate cache that stores the results of previous queries for a period of time. The query result cache is not dependent on the warehouse state, but on the query criteria2.