Set up Data Access
Follow this workflow to configure Data Access and share your Analytics data with your Snowflake account.
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You can follow this process to share Analytics data to an existing Snowflake account.
- Open Analytics in the Unity Dashboard, and select Analytics Settings.
- Click Set up Data Access.
- Click With an existing account, then select Next.
- Enter your account locator and cloud region provider, then select Create.
Access your Analytics data in Snowflake
To access the shared data you need to create a database from the share and grant the account admin role for the database:- Select Data Products > Private sharing > Shared with you.
Snowflake displays the shares available for your account, including the one you set up in the Unity Dashboard. You can also view shares via the SQL command: .
SHOW SHARES; - Select the download button on the share you wish to view.
- Define the roles you want to allow access to this share, and select Get Data.
To view the created databases in Snowflake, select Data > Databases. Alternatively, you can view the list of databases via the SQL command:CREATE DATABASE "SFSHARETEST" FROM SHARE UNITYLIVEOPS."UNITY_ANALYTICS_PDA";GRANT IMPORTED PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE "SFSHARETEST" TO ROLE "ACCOUNTADMIN";
Show databases;describe share <sharename>Useful resources
- A list of views available through data access is listed on the Data Access available views page.
- Snowflake documentation on a BI tooling solution that natively supports Snowflake.
- Snowflake documentation on an ETL and data transformation tools that natively support Snowflake.