Snowflake Connection

Connection to a Snowflake data warehouse.

Examples

snowflake_connection_basic.yaml

connection:
  snowflake:
    account: your-snowflake-account
    user: your-username
    password: ${secret.my_vault_name.your-password}

snowflake_connection_schema.yaml

connection:
  snowflake:
    account: your-snowflake-account
    user: your-username
    password: ${secret.my_vault_name.your-password}
    create_schema_if_not_exists: true

snowflake_connection_config.yaml

connection:
  snowflake:
    account: your-snowflake-account
    user: your-username
    password: ${secret.my_vault_name.your-password}
    warehouse: your-warehouse
    role: your-role
    max_concurrent_queries: 50

SnowflakeConnection

info

SnowflakeConnection is defined beneath the following ancestor nodes in the YAML structure:

• Connection

Below are the properties for the SnowflakeConnection. Each property links to the specific details section further down in this page.

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
name		string	No	The name of the model
description		string	No	A brief description of what the model does.
metadata		ResourceMetadata	No	Meta information of a resource. In most cases it doesn't affect the system behavior but may be helpful to analyze project resources.
snowflake		SnowflakeConnectionOptions	Yes	The Snowflake connection options.

Property Details

Connection

A connection to a data source/sink.

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
connection		One of:   S3Connection   GcsConnection   AbfsConnection   LocalFileConnection   SnowflakeConnection   BigQueryConnection   MSSQLConnection   MySQLConnection   OracleConnection   PostgresConnection   HttpConnection   DuckDBConnection   CustomPythonConnection   SynapseConnection	Yes	The connection to the data system.

SnowflakeConnectionOptions

Snowflake connection options.

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
max_query_length		integer	No	The maximum query length to allow.
max_concurrent_queries		integer	No	The maximum number of concurrent queries to allow.
max_combined_sql_statements		integer	No	The maximum number of combined SQL statements to allow.
account		string	Yes	The Snowflake account to connect to.
user		string	Yes	The Snowflake user to connect as.
password		string	No	The Snowflake password to use for the connection.
private_key		string	No	The private key file to use for the Snowflake connection.
database		string	No	The Snowflake database to connect to.
schema	PUBLIC	string	No	The Snowflake schema to use.
warehouse		string	No	The Snowflake warehouse to use.
role		string	No	The Snowflake role to use.
create_schema_if_not_exists		boolean	No	A boolean flag indicating whether to create the schema if it does not exist.
max_dml_per_table	20	integer	No	Snowflake has a built-in limit of 20 DML statements that target the same table concurrently, including COPY, INSERT, MERGE, UPDATE, and DELETE.

ResourceMetadata

Meta information of a resource. In most cases it doesn't affect the system behavior but may be helpful to analyze project resources.

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
source		ResourceLocation	No	The origin or source information for the resource.
source_event_uuid		string	No	UUID of the event that is associated with creation of this resource.

ResourceLocation

The origin or source information for the resource.

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
path		string	Yes	Path within repository files where the resource is defined.
first_line_number		integer	No	First line number within path file where the resource is defined.