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title: Snowflake
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description: "Snowflake is a cloud-native data warehouse."
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import { DatabasePage } from '@site/src/components/databases';

export const databaseInfo = {"time_grains":{"SECOND":true,"FIVE_SECONDS":false,"THIRTY_SECONDS":false,"MINUTE":true,"FIVE_MINUTES":true,"TEN_MINUTES":true,"FIFTEEN_MINUTES":true,"THIRTY_MINUTES":true,"HALF_HOUR":false,"HOUR":true,"SIX_HOURS":false,"DAY":true,"WEEK":true,"WEEK_STARTING_SUNDAY":false,"WEEK_STARTING_MONDAY":false,"WEEK_ENDING_SATURDAY":false,"WEEK_ENDING_SUNDAY":false,"MONTH":true,"QUARTER":true,"QUARTER_YEAR":false,"YEAR":true},"module":"superset.db_engine_specs.snowflake","limit_method":1,"limit_clause":true,"joins":true,"subqueries":true,"alias_in_select":true,"alias_in_orderby":true,"time_groupby_inline":false,"alias_to_source_column":false,"order_by_not_in_select":true,"expressions_in_orderby":false,"cte_in_subquery":true,"max_column_name":256,"sql_comments":true,"escaped_colons":true,"masked_encrypted_extra":false,"column_type_mapping":false,"function_names":false,"user_impersonation":false,"file_upload":true,"get_extra_table_metadata":false,"dbapi_exception_mapping":false,"custom_errors":false,"dynamic_schema":true,"catalog":true,"dynamic_catalog":true,"ssh_tunneling":true,"query_cancelation":true,"get_metrics":false,"where_latest_partition":false,"expand_data":false,"query_cost_estimation":false,"sql_validation":false,"score":72,"max_score":201,"documentation":{"description":"Snowflake is a cloud-native data warehouse.","logo":"snowflake.svg","homepage_url":"https://www.snowflake.com/","categories":["Cloud Data Warehouses","Analytical Databases","Proprietary"],"pypi_packages":["snowflake-sqlalchemy"],"connection_string":"snowflake://{user}:{password}@{account}.{region}/{database}?role={role}&warehouse={warehouse}","install_instructions":"echo \"snowflake-sqlalchemy\" >> ./docker/requirements-local.txt","connection_examples":[{"description":"With role and warehouse","connection_string":"snowflake://{user}:{password}@{account}.{region}/{database}?role={role}&warehouse={warehouse}"},{"description":"With defaults (role/warehouse optional)","connection_string":"snowflake://{user}:{password}@{account}.{region}/{database}"}],"authentication_methods":[{"name":"Key Pair Authentication","description":"Use RSA key pair instead of password","requirements":"Key pair must be generated and public key registered in Snowflake","notes":"Merge multi-line private key to one line with \\n between lines."}],"notes":"Schema is not required in connection string. Ensure user has privileges for all databases/schemas/tables/views/warehouses.","docs_url":"https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/key-pair-auth.html","category":"Cloud Data Warehouses","custom_errors":[{"regex_name":"OBJECT_DOES_NOT_EXIST_REGEX","message_template":"%(object)s does not exist in this database.","error_type":"OBJECT_DOES_NOT_EXIST_ERROR","category":"Query","description":"Object not found","issue_codes":[1029]},{"regex_name":"SYNTAX_ERROR_REGEX","message_template":"Please check your query for syntax errors at or near \"%(syntax_error)s\". Then, try running your query again.","error_type":"SYNTAX_ERROR","category":"Query","description":"SQL syntax error","issue_codes":[1030]}]},"engine":"snowflake","engine_name":"Snowflake","engine_aliases":[],"default_driver":"snowflake","supports_file_upload":true,"supports_dynamic_schema":true,"supports_catalog":true,"supports_dynamic_catalog":true};

<DatabasePage name="Snowflake" database={databaseInfo} />
