Snowflake Timeout Waiting For The _top_ Download Of #chunk0 May 2026

When a query result exceeds roughly 100KB, Snowflake splits the data into "chunks" and stores them in an internal "user stage" within the cloud provider's infrastructure (AWS S3, Azure Blob, or Google Cloud Storage). This error indicates that while the query succeeded, your local client timed out while trying to reach that storage location to download the first piece of data. Primary Causes of the Error Snowflake JDBC throws error while fetching large data

The error is a common issue encountered when a Snowflake client (typically using the JDBC driver) attempts to download a large query result set. snowflake timeout waiting for the download of #chunk0