Configuring the Adapter for Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse (JDBC)

Procedure: How to Configure the Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse Adapter (JDBC)

You can configure the adapter from either the Web Console or the Data Management Console.

From the Web Console sidebar, click Connect to Data.

or

From the Data Management Console, expand the Adapters folder.

In the DMC, the Adapters folder opens. In the Web Console, the Adapters page opens showing your configured adapters.
In the Web Console, click the New Datasource button on the menu bar and find the adapter on the page or, in the DMC, expand the Available folder if it is not already expanded.
On the Web Console, you can select a category of adapter from the drop-down list or use the search option (magnifying glass) to search for specific characters.
In the DMC, expand the appropriate group folder and the specific adapter folder. The group folder is described in the connection attributes reference.
Right-click the adapter name and/or version and select Configure.

The Add Adapter to Configuration pane opens.
Enter values for the parameters required by the adapter, as described in the chapter for the specific adapter you want to configure.
Click Configure. The configured adapter is added to the Adapters list in the DMC resources tree or the Configured list in the Web Console.
In the Web Console, the adapter remains on the Available Adapters list with an asterisk to indicate that at least one connection has been configured. You can configure additional connections from either the Configured or Available list by right-clicking the adapter and clicking Add Connection.

Reference: Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse Adapter Configuration Settings (JDBC)

The Adapter for Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse is under the SQL group folder.

Connection name

Logical name used to identify this particular set of connection attributes. The default is CON01.

URL

Is the URL to the Snowflake data source.

The basic syntax is:

jdbc:snowflake://Server/?warehouse=&|db=&|schema=

You can add any additional connection parameters, such as tracing=off, by first adding the delimiter characters ampersand followed by a vertical bar (&|) to the end of the string.

Security

There are two methods by which a user can be authenticated when connecting to a database server:

Explicit. The user ID and password are explicitly specified for each connection and passed to the database, at connection time, for authentication.
Password Passthru. The user ID and password received from the client application are passed to the database, at connection time, for authentication.

User

Primary authorization ID by which you are known to the data source.

Password

Password associated with the primary authorization ID.

Driver Name

Is the name of the JDBC driver. For example:

net.snowflake.client.jdbc.SnowflakeDriver

IBI_CLASSPATH

Is the jar class path for the driver. For example:

/qas/snowflake/snowflake-jdbc-3.6.3.jar

Select profile

Select a profile from the drop-down menu to indicate the level of profile in which to store the CONNECTION_ATTRIBUTES command. The global profile, edasprof.prf, is the default.

If you wish to create a new profile, either a user profile (user.prf) or a group profile if available on your platform (using the appropriate naming convention), choose New Profile from the drop-down menu and enter a name in the Profile Name field (the extension is added automatically).

Store the connection attributes in the server profile (edasprof).

Always use the characters &| (ampersand followed by the vertical bar) as the parameter separator in the URL for the JDBC type of Snowflake adapter.

Extended Bulk Load functionality is supported with the JDBC type of Snowflake Adapter and does not require any additional configuration steps.

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