A data engineer observes that a daily data transformation pipeline in Snowflake, which processes data from external stage 's3://my- bucket/raw_dataP , is consistently taking longer to complete. Upon investigation, the engineer finds that the COPY INTO statement is the bottleneck. The COPY INTO statement is as follows:

Which of the following could be the root cause of the performance degradation and how would you address them? Select two options.
Correct Answer: B,E
Option B is correct because a large number of small files can significantly degrade COPY INTO performance. Snowflake performs best with fewer, larger files. Option E is also correct because an overly broad pattern can force Snowflake to evaluate unnecessary files. Refining the pattern and leveraging partition pruning can improve performance. Option A is incorrect as 'ON_ERROR = CONTINUE' is not the primary cause for performance issues, it just handles the error instead of failing the job. Option C might help in some cases but its not the primary cause, more focusing on the data loading part. Option D is incorrect as Snowflake does not fully automize COPY INTO operations and some level of tuning might be needed.