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Answer: The reader account compute will be billed to the provider account.
The correct answer is B because reader accounts are managed and billed by the provider account, as confirmed by the Snowflake documentation and community consensus with 100% agreement. Option A is incorrect because reader accounts use the Reader edition, not Standard. Option C is incorrect because reader accounts cannot clone shared data. Option D is incorrect because reader accounts cannot create copies of shared data using CREATE TABLE AS, as they only have read access.
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A data provider wants to share data with a consumer who does not have a Snowflake account. The provider creates a reader account for the consumer and performs the following steps:
Based on this configuration, what is true of the reader account?
A
The reader account will automatically use the Standard edition of Snowflake.
B
The reader account compute will be billed to the provider account.
C
The reader account can clone data the provider has shared, but cannot re-share it.
D
The reader account can create a copy of the shared data using CREATE TABLE AS...
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