Snowflake

Steps to prepare and connect to Snowflake

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Lightup account setup

Run the following SQL in a Snowflake database to prepare an account for Lightup.

  • You must have at least the ACCOUNTADMIN role to set up new accounts.
  • This SQL only grants access to one database. Consider creating a data warehouse for the databases you want to monitor, and then creating a Lightup login and role there.
  • If you are connecting to an imported database, you must grant imported privileges on the database.
-- change role to ACCOUNTADMIN
use role ACCOUNTADMIN;

-- create role for lightup
create role if not exists lightup_role;

-- grant usage on warehouse
grant usage on warehouse compute_wh to role lightup_role;

-- grant access to data assets with the database
grant usage on database testdb to role lightup_role;
grant usage on all schemas in database testdb to role lightup_role;
grant usage on future schemas in database testdb to role lightup_role;

grant select on all tables in database testdb to role lightup_role;
grant select on future tables in database testdb to role lightup_role;

-- create user and assign to role 
create user if not exists lightup_user password = 'redacted';
grant role lightup_role to user lightup_user;
alter user lightup_user set default_role = lightup_role;
alter user lightup_user set default_warehouse = compute_wh;

Configure connector

  • Host - The account ID of the datasource, for example updwnz-cba54045. For help, see Snowflake's Account Identifiers.
  • Database Name - The name of the database you're connecting to. Each datasource can only connect to one database. If you need to connect to more than one, you'll need to create a datasource for each.
  • Username - Enter lightup_user.
  • Password - The username account's password.

Optional settings

Advanced/Schema scan frequency

You can adjust how often scans run for a datasource.

  • In section 3 - Advanced, select a value for Schema scan frequency: Hourly, Daily, or Weekly.

Query Governance

Snowflake datasources support all query governance features.

Date/time data types

These Snowflake date/time data types are supported:

  • DATE
  • TIMESTAMP_LTZ
  • TIMESTAMP_NTZ
  • TIMESTAMP_TZ

Object types

These Snowflake object types are supported:

Updated 10 days ago