# tSnowflakeInput

Reads data from a Snowflake table into the data flow of your Job based on an SQL query.

Information noteNote:

This component is not shipped with your Talend Studio by default. You need to install it using the Feature Manager. For more information, see [Installing features using the Feature Manager](https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/8.0/studio-user-guide/install-features-to-talend-studio).

### In this section

* [tSnowflakeInput Standard properties](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/snowflake/tsnowflakeinput-standard-properties)
* [tSnowflakeInput properties for Apache Spark Batch (technical preview)](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/snowflake/tsnowflakeinput-properties-for-apache-spark-batch-technical-preview)

**Related concepts**

* [Aggregating Snowflake data using ELT components](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/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.")
* [Processing Parquet data using Snowflake components](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/snowflake/processing-parquet-data-using-snowflake-components "This scenario shows the way to load data from a Parquet file into a Snowflake table and to retrieve the data from the Snowflake table.")
* [Writing data into and reading data from a Snowflake table](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/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.")