Snowflake connection
To access your data in Snowflake, create a connection asset for it.
Snowflake is a cloud-based data storage and analytics service.
Create a connection to Snowflake
To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:
- Account name: The full name of your account
- Database name
- Role: The default access control role to use in the Snowflake session
- Warehouse: The virtual warehouse
- Username and password
- Okta URL endpoint: If your company uses native Okta SSO authentication, enter the Okta URL endpoint for your Okta account. Example:
https://<okta_account_name>.okta.com. Leave this field blank if you want to use Snowflake's default authentication. For information about federated authentication provided by Okta, see Native SSO.
For Credentials, you can use secrets if a vault is configured for the platform and the service supports vaults. For information, see Using secrets from vaults in connections.
Choose the method for creating a connection based on where you are in the platform
In a project Click Add to project > Connection. See Adding a connection to a project.
In a catalog
Click Add to catalog > Connection. See Adding a connection asset to a catalog.
In a deployment space
Click Add to space > Connection. See Adding connections to a deployment space.
In the Platform assets catalog
Click New connection. See Adding platform connections.
Next step: Add data assets from the connection
Where you can use this connection
You can use Snowflake connections in the following workspaces and tools:
Analytics projects
- Data Refinery (Watson Studio or Watson Knowledge Catalog)
- DataStage (DataStage service)
- Metadata import (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
- Notebooks (Watson Studio). Use the insert-to-code function to get the connection credentials and load the data into a data structure. See Load data from data source connections.
- SPSS Modeler (SPSS Modeler service)
Catalogs
- Platform assets catalog
- Other catalogs (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
Data Virtualization service You can connect to this data source from Data Virtualization.
Snowflake setup
Running SQL statements
To ensure that your SQL statements run correctly, refer to the Snowflake SQL Command Reference for the correct syntax.
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Parent topic: Supported connections