Concepts → Session Variable

About a session variable

A session variable value is a user-defined variable. A variable stores data of a specific data type. A session variable is immutable within the variable scope of a user session. Typically, a schema developer creates a session variable.

There are three types of sessions variables:

Note

Starting with 2023.7.0, you can use the Schema Manager to view the data lineage of session variables that you own or have access rights to. You can track entities referenced in a session variable, that is, its source or upstream lineage and entities that reference the session variable, that is, downstream lineage. For more details, refer to Tools → Data Lineage Viewer.