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

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.