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Settings Overview

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XML-based Settings Profiles and configuration files are currently not supported for ClickHouse Cloud. To specify settings for your ClickHouse Cloud service, you must use SQL-driven Settings Profiles.

There are two main groups of ClickHouse settings:

  • Global server settings
  • Query-level settings

The main distinction between global server settings and query-level settings is that global server settings must be set in configuration files while query-level settings can be set in configuration files or with SQL queries.

Read about global server settings to learn more about configuring your ClickHouse server at the global server level.

Read about query-level settings to learn more about configuring your ClickHouse server at the query-level.