Folks , when I want to push data to snowflake I need to use a stage for files before copying data over. However, when I utilise the net.snowflake.spark.snowflake.Utils library and do a spark.write as in...

spark.read.format("csv")
  .option("header", "true")
  .load("/mydata.data")
  .write.format("snowflake")
  .options(options).mode("append").option("dbtable", "mytable").save()

I can write directly into snowflake without specifying a stage etc.

Just wondering how this works so I can preempt any security problems etc.