Snowflake is a fully managed SaaS (software as a service) that provides a single platform for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and secure sharing and consumption of real-time/shared data. Snowflake features out-of-the-box features like separation of storage and compute, on-the-fly scalable compute, data sharing, data cloning, and third-party tools support in order to handle the demanding needs of growing enterprises.
On the Connect to your Database page, enter the following information, then click Next:
Field | Description |
Connector name | The name for your connection. |
Snowflake URL | The URL to connect to Snowflake, such as https://<variable>.snowflakecomputing.com. |
Snowflake role | The role in Snowflake, such as <user>_role. |
Warehouse | The name of the Snowflake warehouse your data runs out of. |
Database name | The name of the Snowflake database. |
Username | The Snowflake user name, such as admin. |
Password | The Snowflake password. |
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