Connect to Snowflake Data Warehouse

You can create a connection to Snowflake Data Warehouse and use the connection to access data for visualization and data-modeling.

Before you start, create a key-pair by following the steps in Set Up Key-Pair Authentication for Snowflake Data Warehouse

See format guidelines, https://docs.snowflake.net/manuals/user-guide/connecting.html.

  1. On your home page, click Create, and then click Connection.
  2. Click Snowflake Data Warehouse.
  3. Enter a Connection Name.
  4. In Authentication Type, select Key Pair.
    If you've been using single-factor (basic) authentication, switch to key-pair authentication. Single factor password authentication in Snowflake is desupported from November 2025.
  5. In Hostname, enter the host account name using one of the following formats:
    • For Amazon Web Services US West, use <account>.snowflakecomputing.com
    • For all other regions on Amazon Web Services, use <account>.<region>.snowflakecomputing.com
    • For all regions on Microsoft Azure, use <account>.<region>.azure.snowflakecomputing.com

    Where account is the Snowflake account name that you want to use to access the data, for example: exampleaccountname.snowflakecomputing.com.

  6. For Database Name, enter the name of the database containing the schema tables and columns that you want to connect to.
  7. For Username, enter a user ID with access to the Snowflake data source.
  8. In Private API Key, click Select and select the private key that you created when you set up key-pair authentication.
  9. For Warehouse, enter the name of the warehouse containing the database, schema tables and columns that you want to connect to. For example, My Snowflake Warehouse.
  10. Click Save.