diff --git a/clients/snowflake/staging.go b/clients/snowflake/staging.go
index e454723a4..c258a4fd2 100644
--- a/clients/snowflake/staging.go
+++ b/clients/snowflake/staging.go
@@ -46,22 +46,21 @@ func castColValStaging(colVal any, colKind columns.Column, additionalDateFmts []
 	return replaceExceededValues(value, colKind), nil
 }
 
-func (s *Store) PrepareTemporaryTable(tableData *optimization.TableData, tableConfig *types.DwhTableConfig, tempTableID types.TableIdentifier, additionalSettings types.AdditionalSettings, createTempTable bool) error {
-	if createTempTable {
-		tempAlterTableArgs := ddl.AlterTableArgs{
-			Dwh:               s,
-			Tc:                tableConfig,
-			TableID:           tempTableID,
-			CreateTable:       true,
-			TemporaryTable:    true,
-			ColumnOp:          constants.Add,
-			UppercaseEscNames: ptr.ToBool(s.ShouldUppercaseEscapedNames()),
-			Mode:              tableData.Mode(),
-		}
+func (s *Store) PrepareTemporaryTable(tableData *optimization.TableData, tableConfig *types.DwhTableConfig, tempTableID types.TableIdentifier, additionalSettings types.AdditionalSettings, _ bool) error {
+	// Snowflake always creates a temporary table
+	tempAlterTableArgs := ddl.AlterTableArgs{
+		Dwh:               s,
+		Tc:                tableConfig,
+		TableID:           tempTableID,
+		CreateTable:       true,
+		TemporaryTable:    true,
+		ColumnOp:          constants.Add,
+		UppercaseEscNames: ptr.ToBool(s.ShouldUppercaseEscapedNames()),
+		Mode:              tableData.Mode(),
+	}
 
-		if err := tempAlterTableArgs.AlterTable(tableData.ReadOnlyInMemoryCols().GetColumns()...); err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("failed to create temp table: %w", err)
-		}
+	if err := tempAlterTableArgs.AlterTable(tableData.ReadOnlyInMemoryCols().GetColumns()...); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to create temp table: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	// Write data into CSV
diff --git a/clients/snowflake/writes.go b/clients/snowflake/writes.go
index 90bdda710..e1c4aa369 100644
--- a/clients/snowflake/writes.go
+++ b/clients/snowflake/writes.go
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import (
 )
 
 func (s *Store) Append(tableData *optimization.TableData) error {
+	tableID := s.IdentifierFor(tableData.TopicConfig(), tableData.Name())
+
 	var err error
 	for i := 0; i < maxRetries; i++ {
 		if i > 0 {
@@ -24,12 +26,15 @@ func (s *Store) Append(tableData *optimization.TableData) error {
 			}
 		}
 
-		tableID := s.IdentifierFor(tableData.TopicConfig(), tableData.Name())
-		// TODO: For history mode - in the future, we could also have a separate stage name for history mode so we can enable parallel processing.
+		temporaryTableID := shared.TempTableID(tableID, tableData.TempTableSuffix())
 		err = shared.Append(s, tableData, types.AppendOpts{
-			TempTableID:          tableID,
+			TempTableID:          temporaryTableID,
 			AdditionalCopyClause: `FILE_FORMAT = (TYPE = 'csv' FIELD_DELIMITER= '\t' FIELD_OPTIONALLY_ENCLOSED_BY='"' NULL_IF='\\N' EMPTY_FIELD_AS_NULL=FALSE) PURGE = TRUE`,
 		})
+
+		if err == nil {
+			_, err = s.Exec(`INSERT INTO %s SELECT * FROM %s`, tableID.FullyQualifiedName(), temporaryTableID.FullyQualifiedName())
+		}
 	}
 
 	return err