Overview

You can use the Snowflake - Bulkload Snap to load data from input sources or files stored on external object stores like Amazon S3, Google Storage, and Azure Storage Blob into the Snowflake data warehouse.

Snap Type

The Snowflake - Bulk Load Snap is a Write-type Snap that performs a bulk load operation.

Prerequisites

You must have minimum permissions on the database to execute Snowflake Snaps. To understand if you already have them, you must retrieve the current set of permissions. The following commands enable you to retrieve those permissions:

SHOW GRANTS ON DATABASE <database_name>
SHOW GRANTS ON SCHEMA <schema_name>
SHOW GRANTS TO USER <user_name>

You must enable the Snowflake account to use private preview features for creating the Iceberg table.
External volume has to be created on the Snowflake worksheet, or Snowflake Execute snap. Learn more about creating external volume.

Security Prererequisites

You must have the following permissions in your Snowflake account to execute this Snap:

Usage (DB and Schema): Privilege to use the database, role, and schema.
Create table: Privilege to create a temporary table within this schema.

The following commands enable minimum privileges in the Snowflake console:

grant usage on database <database_name> to role <role_name>;
grant usage on schema <database_name>.<schema_name>;
 
grant "CREATE TABLE" on database <database_name> to role <role_name>;
grant "CREATE TABLE" on schema <database_name>.<schema_name>;

Learn more about Snowflake privileges: