If Kafka topics are not mapped to existing Snowflake tables, what does the Kafka connector do?

• A. The data ingestion will fail because the tables do not exist
• B. Kafka messages keep piling into the queue until the tables are created
• C. The Kafka connector creates a new table for each topic using the topic name
• D. The connector will require manual table creation before proceeding

Answer: (C)

When the Snowflake Kafka Connector doesn’t find an existing table mapped to a topic, it can automatically create one. It uses the topic name as the new table name and starts loading the topic’s data into that table. This removes the need for manual table creation and lets each topic become its own table by default. If you don’t want this behavior, you’d disable auto-create and map topics to preexisting tables instead.