You observe that a Snowflake query, intended to perform aggregations on a 'SALES table (partitioned by 'SALE DATE), exhibits unexpectedly poor performance despite the data being relatively well clustered. Further investigation reveals that a user recently modified the 'SESSION' parameter NTE OUTPUT FORMAT to 'YYYY-MM'. The aggregation query filters the 'SALES' table using a 'WHERE clause on 'SALE DATE. Which of the following explains the performance degradation, and what actions can be taken to remediate?
Correct Answer: B,E
The parameter itself doesn't change underlying data or invalidate clustering directly (A). While a larger result set can impact network (C), it's less likely than partition pruning issues in this scenario. 'DATE OUTPUT FORMAT can affect query performance if it causes implicit conversion on 'DATE columns in 'WHERE clauses, which can prevent partition pruning; setting it back to 'AUTO' or default behavior fixes this. The optimizer can be affected, forcing full table scan which is sub-optimal.