# tSnowflakeConnection

Opens a connection to Snowflake that can then be reused by other Snowflake components.

For more technologies supported by Talend, see [Talend components](https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/7.3/components/snowflake).

### In this section

* [tSnowflakeConnection Standard properties](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/7.3/snowflake/tsnowflakeconnection-standard-properties)

**Related concepts**

[Writing data into and reading data from a Snowflake table](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/7.3/snowflake/tsnowflakeconnection-tsnowflakerow-tsalesforceconnection-writing-data-into-and-reading-data-from-snowflake-table-standard-component "Here is an example of using Talend Snowflake components to connect to Snowflake, create a Snowflake table, write data into the table, then read data from this table, finally close the connection to Snowflake.")

[Aggregating Snowflake data using context variables as table and connection names](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/7.3/snowflake/teltinput-teltmap-tsnowflakeinput-tlogrow-aggregating-snowflake-data-using-context-variables-as-table-and-connection-names "This scenario shows you an example of aggregating Snowflake data from two source tables STUDENT and TEACHER to one target table FULLINFO using the ELT components. In this example, set all input and output table names and connection names to context variables.")