Here are some gotchas to look out for when connecting to Snowflake:
Account vs. Region fields. The Account
field requires only the alphanumeric account ID. Enter the suffixes indicating region and cloud provider in the Region ID
field below. For example, if the Snowflake account URL is https://az12345.ca-central-1.snowflakecomputing.com
then the Account
would be az12345
and the Region ID
would be ca-central-1.aws
.
The Role
and Schema
fields are optional. Specifying a role will override the database user’s default role. For example, if the database user is REPORTER
with default role REPORTER
, but the user also has access to role REPORTERPRODUCT
, then filling in REPORTERPRODUCT
in the Role
field will ensure that the REPORTERPRODUCT
role is used instead of the user’s default REPORTER
role. If no schema is passed, then all schema available to that user and role will be listed as folders in the Metabase UI.
All other fields must be entered in upper case. Excluding the password.