Snowflake connection

IP RESTRICTIONS

Make sure to allow traffic from one of the Paradime IPs in your firewall depending on the data location selected.

👉 See also: Paradime IP addresses.

We advise creating a new Snowflake user and grant the suggested access required to create tables and views your Production database.

Create a new Snowflake user

You can execute the SQL commands below in Snowflake and create a user with the suggested access credentials.

Suggested Permissions

This set of permissions will enable Paradime to read from and create tables and views when running production jobs in you Snowflake database.

use role securityadmin;

-- create warehouse if not exists
create warehouse transforming
    warehouse_size = xsmall
    auto_suspend = 60
    auto_resume = true
    initially_suspended = true;

-- create role and grant warehouse permission
create role transformer;
grant all on warehouse transforming to role transformer;

-- create prod user
create user paradime_prod_user
    password = '<generate_password>'
    default_warehouse = transforming
    default_role = transformer;

-- grant this roles to paradime_prod_user
grant role transformer to user paradime_prod_user;

-- grant permission to allow role to read from your source database
grant usage on database <your_databse_name> to role transformer;
grant usage on future schemas in database <your_databse_name> to role transformer;
grant select on future tables in database <your_databse_name> to role transformer;
grant select on future views in database <your_databse_name> to role transformer;
grant usage on all schemas in database <your_databse_name> to role transformer;
grant select on all tables in database <your_databse_name> to role transformer;
grant select on all views in database <your_databse_name> to role transformer;

-- grant permission to allow role to write to your prod database
grant all on database analytics to role transformer;

Add Production Connection

To add the Snowflake Production connection, go to account settings > connections, select Production Environment and enter the required fields.

Using Username & Password

Fields Details

Below are list of fields and example to create a connection.

Field	Description	Example
Profile	The profile name set in your dbt_project.yaml . See more here.	dbt-snowflake
Target	The target name used to identify the connection. See more here.	prod
Account	The Snowflake account to connect to as per Snowflake's documentation.	vj71689.eu-west-2.aws
Role	The role to assume when running queries as the specified user.	transformer
Database	The name of your Snowflake production database.	analytics
Warehouse	The virtual warehouse to use for running queries.	transforming
Username	The username created with access to the production database.	prod_user
Password	The password set for the user created in Snowflake.	password_xyz
Schema	The default schema used to build dbt™️ objects at runtime.	dbt_prod
Threads	The number of threads used in this connection. See more here.	8

Using Key-Pair authentication

In Paradime you can use Key-Pair authentication method to connect your production environment using a Private Key and optionally a Private Key Passphrase.

After generating an encrypted or unencrypted key pair, you will need to set the rsa_public_key for the Snowflake user connecting to Paradime.

alter user prod_user set rsa_public_key='MIIBIjANBgkqh...';

Fields Details

Below are list of fields and example to create a connection.

Field	Description	Example
Profile	The profile name set in your dbt_project.yaml . See more here.	dbt-snowflake
Target	The target name used to identify the connection. See more here.	prod
Account	The Snowflake account to connect to as per Snowflake's documentation.	vj71689.eu-west-2.aws
Role	The role to assume when running queries as the specified user.	transformer
Database	The name of your Snowflake production database.	analytics
Warehouse	The virtual warehouse to use for running queries.	transforming
Username	The username created with access to the production database.	prod_user
Private Key	The Private Key generated and linked to the user. You must include the commented lines when adding the Private Key.	-----BEGIN ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY----- < private key content here > -----END ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY-----
Private Key Passphrase (Optional)	The Passphrase created when generating the encrypted key	passphrase_xyz
Schema	The default schema used to build dbt™️ objects at runtime.	dbt_prod
Threads	The number of threads used in this connection. See more here.	8