🔌Setting up a Snowflake Connector
Configuring the Snowflake connector in Toucan
Fill out the form with the following info:
name: for example,
my_snowflake_connector
account: in the form
account_id.region_id.cloud_platform
. When you connect to your snowflake UI, it is the first part of the url<account_identifier>.snowflakecomputing.com
. You can read more about it hereauthentication method
: betweenSnowflake (ID+Password)
(deprecated by Snowflake in November 2025) "Key pair
"Snowflake (ID+Password)
User (string) mandatory: the user with rights to access to the Snowflake database
Password(string) mandatory: password associated to the user
Key pair
User (string) mandatory: the user with rights to access to the Snowflake database
Private Key(string) mandatory: the key generated to access to your Snowflake database the key in PEM-encoded PKCS#8 format
Password (string) optional: if your key is protected by a password you can add it to the password field
Token endpoint (string):
Token endpoint content type: ('application/json')
Role (string) optional: fill with the role associated to your user
Default Warehouse (string) optional: fill with the Warehouse you want to access
Retry policy (boolean) optional:

Click save. You should see the following check succeeding:

Once the check has succeeded, you can close the popup window and save the form.
After successfully configuring the connector, you will be able to find it in the Connector section of the DataHub "Datasource" tab
Selecting data from Snowflake
To create a dataset from Snowflake, click on the "create from" icon, you will then be able to:
Select the Database
Select the Data warehouse
Select the Schema
Select Table or Views
Only keep the columns you need
After selecting data from your connector you will be able to create a dataset thanks to YouPrep using the selection as "source step".
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