Technical requirements
For this chapter, you will need access to a modern internet browser (Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, and so on) and access to the internet in order to provision and connect to your Snowflake instance in the cloud. Since we will be installing the SnowSQL client, administrative (root) access on your machine will be required.
To set up, configure, and compile a sample program that uses the Snowflake JDBC driver, you will need to have the following installed and configured:
- OpenJDK 1.8+
- Maven 2.4+
You may use Visual Studio IDE for Linux or another IDE of your choice to compile the Java code.
The code for this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Snowflake-Cookbook/tree/master/Chapter01.