Snowflake

The Snowflake connector provides read-only access to data and metadata from an external Snowflake account.

A connection admin can set up a connection to Snowflake in the Zero Copy Connector Hub and grant data stewards access to this connection. Data stewards can then use the established connection to create a data fabric table and map data from Snowflake. This allows users to access Snowflake data through the table list view or by using GlideRecord scripts. For details on creating data fabric tables and mapping data, see Managing data fabric tables.

When you configure the connection with an access token, you can choose whether the connection authenticates using a shared, system-level OAuth entity profile or personal authentication.

Note: With personal authentication, each user’s access to Snowflake data is authenticated and audited against their own credentials, not a shared account. This supports stricter access control and clearer audit trails.

The connector has been enhanced to improve the performance of the following Glide queries and list view operations. These improvements allow the majority of queries to be executed at the data source.

• Sort

• Limit

• Filter

• GroupBy

• avg()

• count()

• max()

• min()

• sum()

• References

Supported data types

The following table lists supported Snowflake data types and the default matching data types in a data fabric table.

Important: Snowflake data types not included in the table aren’t supported for data mapping in Zero Copy Connector Hub.

Snowflake Data fabric table int Decimal byteint Decimal char String character String varchar String varchar_default String string String text String date Date timestamp Basic Date/Time timestamp_tz Date/Time boolean True/False datetime Date/Time numeric Decimal integer Decimal bigint Decimal smallint Decimal tinyint Decimal

Related topics

Create a Snowflake connection