Snowflake Exam ARA-R01 Topic 2 Question 29 Discussion

Enabling the search optimization service on the table can improve the performance of queries that have selective filtering criteria, which seems to be the case here. This service optimizes the execution of queries by creating a persistent data structure called a search access path, which allows some micro-partitions to be skipped during the scanning process. This can significantly speed up query performance without increasing compute costs1.

Reference

* Snowflake Documentation on Search Optimization Service1.