Snowflake

In Illa, you can use the Snowflake query editor to execute SQL queries against your Snowflake data warehouse. You can connect to Snowflake by entering your Snowflake account credentials, including the account name, username, password, and warehouse name. Once you have connected to Snowflake, you can use the query editor to write and execute SQL queries to retrieve, manipulate, and analyze your data.

Create Snowflake

There are two ways to create a resource in Illa after signing into your Illa account.

• Create in Resources

Sign into your Illa account, select **Resources** on the top of the page, and click **Create New** button.

Select Snowflake from the database list.

Connect to the database with the required parameters described in Connection Settings below.

Click **Test Connection** to see if we can successfully connect to the database. If yes, click Save Resources, else, double check the hostname, port, username, and password is correct.

After creating a resource, the ready Snowflake will display as shown.

• Create in Builder

Sign into your Illa account, create a project in Illa Builder in the **App** page, and navigate to the Action List at the bottom of the page. Click **new**, then select Snowflake from the database list. Then, connect to the database with required parameters described in Connection Settings below.

Click **Test Connection** to see if we can successfully connect to the database. If yes, click Save Resources, else, double check the hostname, port, username, and password is correct.

Connection Settings

Here we need to provide information for connecting to Snowflake database.

Properties	Required	Description
Name	required	The name for resource when creating actions in the ILLA.
Account name	required	unique identifier that is assigned to each Snowflake account
Warehouse	required	a cluster of compute resources that are used to process queries and run analytical workloads
Database	required	The name of the database
Schema	optional	a container that holds database objects such as tables, views, and procedures
Role	optional	a named set of privileges that can be assigned to one or more users
Authentication	required	secure access to your data and resources in the Snowflake data warehouse (Basic Auth or Key Pair (only encrypted private keys are supported))
Username	required	the username you wish to use when logging in to the Snowflake server.
Password	required	Use this password for authentication.

Create Actions

We have created a Snowflake resource, we can add the action by selecting Snowflake from action list and choosing the Create action button.

Now we have added the Snowflake server as an action to our building page.

Configure Snowflake

Properties	Description
SQL query	sql commands to fetch (select), insert, update, delete data from database
Transformer	transforming data into the style you like using JavaScript

Example usage:

• Select

SELECT * FROM users ORDER BY lastname;

• Insert

INSERT INTO users

    (firstname, lastname, email)

VALUES

    (

        {{ NewUser.data.firstNameInput }},

        {{ NewUser.data.lastNameInput }},

        {{ NewUser.data.emailInput }}

    );

• Update

UPDATE users
  SET firstname = '{{form1.updatedProfile.first}}'
  WHERE id = {{ form1.updatedProfile.uid}};

• Delete

DELETE FROM users WHERE id = {{ form1.updatedProfile.uid }};