tSnowflakeConnection Standard properties

Select a type of database from the list and click Apply.

Property Type

Select the way the connection details will be set.

• Built-In: The connection details will be set locally for this component. You need to specify the values for all related connection properties manually.

• Repository: The connection details stored centrally in Repository > Metadata will be reused by this component. You need to click the [...] button next to it and in the pop-up Repository Content dialog box, select the connection details to be reused, and all related connection properties will be automatically filled in.

Account

In the Account field, enter, in double quotation marks, the account name that has been assigned to you by Snowflake.

Authentication Type

OAuth token endpoint

Enter OAuth 2.0 token endpoint.

This option is available when OAuth 2.0 is selected from the Authentication Type drop-down list.

Client ID

Enter the client ID of your application.

This option is available when OAuth 2.0 is selected from the Authentication Type drop-down list.

Client Secret

Enter the client secret of your application.

This option is available when OAuth 2.0 is selected from the Authentication Type drop-down list.

Grant type

Set the grant type for retrieving the access token. Two options are provided: Client Credentials and Password.

Click Client Credentials and Resource Owner Password Credentials for related information.

This option is available when OAuth 2.0 is selected from the Authentication Type drop-down list.

OAuth username

Enter the OAuth username.

This option is available when Password is selected from the Grant type drop-down list.

OAuth password

Enter the OAuth password.

To enter the password, click the [...] button next to the password field, enter the password between double quotes in the pop-up dialog box, and then click OK to save the settings.

This option is available when Password is selected from the Grant type drop-down list.

Scope

Enter the scope. See Scopes for related information.

This option is available when OAuth 2.0 is selected from the Authentication Type drop-down list.

User Id

Enter your login name in double quotation marks.

Password

Click the [...] button next to the Password field, enter the password in double quotation marks in the pop-up dialog box, and click OK.

This field is available if Basic is selected from the Authentication Type drop-down list.

Key Alias

Enter the key pair alias in double quotation marks.

This field is available if Key Pair is selected from the Authentication Type drop-down list.

Warehouse

Enter, in double quotation marks, the name of the Snowflake warehouse to be used. This name is case-sensitive and is normally upper case in Snowflake.

Enter, within double quotation marks, the name of the database schema to be used. This name is case-sensitive and is normally upper case in Snowflake.

Database

Enter, in double quotation marks, the name of the Snowflake database to be used. This name is case-sensitive and is normally upper case in Snowflake.

This option is selected by default.

Additional JDBC Parameters

Specify additional JDBC parameters for the database connection created.

Specify the timeout period (in minutes) of Snowflake login attempts. An error will be generated if no response is received in this period.

Role

Enter, in double quotation marks, the default access control role to use to initiate the Snowflake session.

This role must already exist and has been granted to the user ID you are using to connect to Snowflake. If this field is left empty, the PUBLIC role is automatically granted. For information about Snowflake access control model, see Understanding the Access Control Model.

Region ID (Deprecated)

Enter a region ID in double quotation marks, for example eu-west-1 or east-us-2.azure. For information about Snowflake Region ID, see Supported Cloud Regions.

For Snowflake components other than tSnowflakeConnection, this field is available when you select Use This Component from the Connection Component drop-down list in the Basic settings view.

tStatCatcher Statistics

Select this check box to gather the Job processing metadata at the Job level as well as at each component level.

ERROR_MESSAGE

The error message generated by the component when an error occurs. This is an After variable and it returns a string.

Usage rule

This component is more commonly used with other Snowflake components. It creates a Snowflake connection and works with other subJobs that reuse this connection using a Trigger link.