Snowflake Cortex Analyst Semantic Views Overview (2026)

Official Snowflake documentation for the Cortex Analyst semantic layer (URL served "Overview of semantic views" content).

Key facts surfaced (2026-05-19):

• Semantic views are schema-level objects storing business concepts (metrics, dimensions, facts) directly in the database.
• Ensures consistent metric definitions — e.g., "net revenue" defined once as "gross revenue after discounts" across all reports.
• Enhances Cortex Analyst accuracy for AI-powered natural language data querying.
• Bridges the gap between how business users conceptualize data and how it's physically stored.
• Curriculum reference: composable CDP equivalent of AEP Customer Journey Analytics (CJA) Data Views for semantic metric definitions (Module 11).