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**Profiles** enable you to join customer profile data from your data warehouse with existing behavioral product data already in Amplitude.
**Profiles** enable you to join customer profile data from your data warehouse with existing behavioral product data already in Amplitude.

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This feature is currently in an **open beta**.
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Profiles act as standalone properties, in that they aren't associated with specific events and are instead associated with a user profile. They're different from traditional user properties and offer the opportunity to conduct more expansive analyses.

Profiles always display the most current data synced from your warehouse.

## Before you begin

Regardless of whether you're using Snowflake or Databricks, Change Data Capture (CDC) **doesn't support replacing existing tables**. Instead, you must use incremental modeling. If the table you integrate with drops and replaces data, the connection breaks.

### Snowflake users
If this is your first time importing data from this table, set a data retention time and enable change tracking in Snowflake with the following commands:

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7. Name the source and set the frequency at which Amplitude should refresh your profiles from the data warehouse. The default frequency is 12 hours, but you can change it.

## Data specifications
Profiles supports a maximum of 200 warehouse properties, and supports known Amplitude users. A `user_id` must go with each profile.

Profiles supports:
* Up to 100 million users
* Up to 200 profile properties
* Up to 200 warehouse properties
* Known Amplitude users

A `user_id` must go with each profile.

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