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  1. Preface
  2. Introduction to Snowflake Data Cloud Connector
  3. Getting started with Snowflake Data Cloud Connector
  4. Connections for Snowflake Data Cloud
  5. Mappings for Snowflake Data Cloud
  6. Sources for Snowflake Data Cloud
  7. Targets for Snowflake Data Cloud
  8. Lookups for Snowflake Data Cloud
  9. Pushdown optimization
  10. Pushdown optimization (SQL ELT) using a Snowflake Data Cloud connection
  11. Migrating a mapping
  12. Appendix A: Data type reference
  13. Appendix B: Additional runtime configurations
  14. Appendix C: Upgrading to Snowflake Data Cloud Connector

Snowflake Data Cloud Connector

Snowflake Data Cloud Connector

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Standard authentication

Standard authentication

When you set up a Snowflake Data Cloud connection, configure the connection properties.
The following table describes the Snowflake Data Cloud connection properties for the Standard authentication mode:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description
Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Type
The Snowflake Data Cloud connection type.
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run the tasks.
You can specify a Secure Agent, Hosted Agent, or serverless runtime environment.
Hosted Agent is not applicable for mappings in advanced mode.
Authentication
The authentication method that the connector must use to log in to Snowflake.
Select
Standard
.
Default is
Standard
.
Username
The user name to connect to the Snowflake account.
Password
The password to connect to the Snowflake account.
Account
The name of the Snowflake account.
For example, if the Snowflake URL is https://<123abc>.us-east-2.aws.snowflakecomputing.com/console/login#/, your account name is the first segment in the URL before snowflakecomputing.com. Here, 123abc.us-east-2.aws is your account name.
If you use the Snowsight URL, for example, https://app.snowflake.com/us-east-2.aws/<123abc>/dashboard, your account name is 123abc.us-east-2.aws
Ensure that the account name doesn't contain underscores. To use an alias name, contact Snowflake Customer Support.
Warehouse
The Snowflake warehouse name.
Role
The Snowflake role assigned to the user.
Additional JDBC URL Parameters
The additional JDBC connection parameters.
Enter one or more JDBC connection parameters in the following format: 
<param1>=<value>&<param2>=<value>&<param3>=<value>....
For example, pass the database and schema values when you connect to Snowflake: 
db=mydb&schema=public
Ensure that there is no space before and after the equal sign (=) when you add the parameters.
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