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Snowflake Cookbook

By : Hamid Mahmood Qureshi, Hammad Sharif
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Book Image

Snowflake Cookbook

5 (1)
By: Hamid Mahmood Qureshi, Hammad Sharif

Overview of this book

Snowflake is a unique cloud-based data warehousing platform built from scratch to perform data management on the cloud. This book introduces you to Snowflake's unique architecture, which places it at the forefront of cloud data warehouses. You'll explore the compute model available with Snowflake, and find out how Snowflake allows extensive scaling through the virtual warehouses. You will then learn how to configure a virtual warehouse for optimizing cost and performance. Moving on, you'll get to grips with the data ecosystem and discover how Snowflake integrates with other technologies for staging and loading data. As you progress through the chapters, you will leverage Snowflake's capabilities to process a series of SQL statements using tasks to build data pipelines and find out how you can create modern data solutions and pipelines designed to provide high performance and scalability. You will also get to grips with creating role hierarchies, adding custom roles, and setting default roles for users before covering advanced topics such as data sharing, cloning, and performance optimization. By the end of this Snowflake book, you will be well-versed in Snowflake's architecture for building modern analytical solutions and understand best practices for solving commonly faced problems using practical recipes.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Creating reader accounts and configuring them for non-Snowflake sharing

Through this recipe, you will create a new reader account and configure the reader account to prepare it for sharing data with non-Snowflake customers.

Getting ready

You will need to be connected to your Snowflake instance via the web UI or the SnowSQL client to execute this recipe. We will act as a data provider and create a reader account subsequently used to share data with non-Snowflake users.

Since we will be creating a reader account, which is an account level activity, ACCOUNTADMIN-level access is required.

How to do it…

We will be utilizing the Snowflake web UI to create this new Reader account. The steps are as follows:

  1. Ensure that you are logged in as a user who has access to the ACCOUNTADMIN role, and that you have changed the effective role to ACCOUNTADMIN in the top-right corner of the Snowflake web UI, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 7.17 – Role selection...