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Snowflake Cookbook

You're reading from   Snowflake Cookbook Techniques for building modern cloud data warehousing solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560611
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hamid Mahmood Qureshi Hamid Mahmood Qureshi
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Hammad Sharif Hammad Sharif
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Snowflake 2. Chapter 2: Managing the Data Life Cycle FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Loading and Extracting Data into and out of Snowflake 4. Chapter 4: Building Data Pipelines in Snowflake 5. Chapter 5: Data Protection and Security in Snowflake 6. Chapter 6: Performance and Cost Optimization 7. Chapter 7: Secure Data Sharing 8. Chapter 8: Back to the Future with Time Travel 9. Chapter 9: Advanced SQL Techniques 10. Chapter 10: Extending Snowflake Capabilities 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

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...

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