Snowflake with DBine
How to connect DBine to Snowflake and what you can do once it's connected. This page is written from what the Snowflake driver says about itself, so it matches the version of DBine you download.
Connect
- In DBine, open New connection.
- Pick Snowflake in the list of engines.
- Fill in the fields below, press Test connection and then Save.
Default port: 443.
General
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Account required | Account identifier (org-account or locator.region), or the full URL. Example: myorg-myaccount |
| User required | |
| Authentication | Snowflake's SQL API doesn't accept passwords: use a PAT or a key pair. Options: Programmatic access token (PAT), Key pair (JWT) Default: Programmatic access token (PAT) |
| Token (PAT) | Kept in the system keychain, never in DBine's files. Only with Authentication: Programmatic access token (PAT). |
| Private key (PEM, unencrypted) | Example: -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----Only with Authentication: Key pair (JWT). |
| Warehouse | |
| Role | |
| Database | |
| Default schema | Example: PUBLIC |
| Read-only | On or off. |
What the explorer shows
Under the connection: Databases, each with its schemas. Inside each one:
- Tables
- Views
- Materialized views
- Functions
- Procedures
- Sequences
- Streams
- Tasks
Query editor
The editor uses SQL, with completion for the connection's objects. Statements and commands run against the database selected in the tab.
Ready-made templates for new objects:
- New view
- New secure view
- New materialized view
- New SQL function
- New JavaScript function
- New procedure
- New sequence
- New stream
- New task
Tools for Snowflake
Available
- Graphical execution plans
- Live query profiler
- Server monitor
- Sessions and running queries
- End a session
- Locks: who blocks whom
- Cancel another session's query from the sessions list
- Index usage
- Create databases
- Drop databases
- Database properties
- Relations in the ER diagram
- Visual designer for new objects
- Rename objects
- Compare and sync schemas
- Native bulk load when migrating data
- Users and permissions
- Backups
Not available for Snowflake
- Manual transactions (commit and rollback)
- Clone tables
Why a tool doesn't apply to an engine, and the details of each one, are in the engine support reference.
Generated from the Snowflake driver 0.1.12, which DBine downloads the first time you connect to Snowflake.