# Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing platform that provides scalable and flexible solutions for storing, processing, and analyzing large volumes of data.

## Prerequisites

* Get Snowflake database connection parameters from the database owner.

## Connect to Snowflake data source

Create a new data source in two ways. Note that this permission is restricted to workspace admins and developers.

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Select **Database** > **Snowflake** as the data source type.

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Set its name and service account.

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(Optional) Click **Test connection** to check whether the new data source is successfully connected.

Click **Save**, and it will be saved to your data source library.