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DirectQuery Snowflake connector is using Snowflake JDBC driver to connect to a database.

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User and Role

To connect DirectQuery to Snowflake, you will first need a User linked to a Role with sufficient privileges.
You can perform these following actions with a Snowflake ‘power user’ account.

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Create a Role

This reference can help you to create a Role.

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Grant required privileges to this Role

DirectQuery required privileges are:
  • USAGE privilege on target warehouse
  • USAGE privilege on target database
  • USAGE privilege on target schema
  • SELECT privilege on schema queryable objects (tables, views)
This reference will help you to grant these to your new role.

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Create a User linked to this Role

Last step is to create a User with the following attributes:
  • login
  • password
  • default role (the role you have just created)
  • default warehouse (warehouse which will be used to run the queries)
  • default namespace (YOUR_DATABASE.SCHEMA)
For more help on this step you may refer to user management help section.

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Basic authentication connection

Connection is done through DirectQuery Snowflake connector passing the minimal following properties:

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Alternative authentication method

Above connection was performed using basic authentication.
Snowflake offers more elaborated ways of authentication.