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Connect to Snowflake

Let's configure the Snowflake Data Cloud connection properties to connect to Snowflake.

Before you begin

Before you get started, you'll need to get information from your Snowflake account based on the authentication type that you want to configure.
The following video shows you how to get the information you need:
Snowflake authentication prerequisites video.https://infa.media/3wyECYZ
Check out Prepare for authentication to learn more about the authentication prerequisites.

Connection details

The following table describes the connection properties:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Use Secret Vault
Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization.
This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization.
When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select which credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured.
Note: If you’re using this connection to apply data access policies through pushdown or proxy services, you cannot use the Secret Vault configuration option.
For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see Secrets manager configuration.
Runtime Environment
Informatica Cloud Hosted Agent, the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.

Authentication types

You can configure standard, authorization code, and client credentials authentication types to access Snowflake. Key pair authentication type is not applicable.
Select the required authentication method and then configure the authentication-specific parameters.