Secure Data Sharing
by
Janardhan Bandi
Data Sharing
• Data can be shared securely.
• Can share data to other snowflake users and to non-snowflake users as well.
• For non-snowflake users, we have to create a reader account and share the data.
• Provider – Who is sharing the data by creating share object.
• Consumer – Who is consuming or using the shared data.
• Shared data can be consumed by consumers own compute resources.
Data Sharing
What objects can be shared?
• What is a share?
• Shares are named database objects that contains all of the information required to
share a database like the object grants and consumer account details.
• All below objects can be shared with other account users.
• Tables
• External tables
• Secure views
• Secure materialized views
• Secure UDFs
Reader Accounts
• Data sharing is only supported between Snowflake accounts.
• If we want to share data with non-snowflake users, we can create reader
accounts for them.
• Reader accounts (known as “read-only accounts”) provide a quick, easy, and
cost-effective way to share data without requiring the consumer to become a
Snowflake customer.
• Each reader account belongs to the provider account that created it.
• Readers can't perform any DML operations, they will have only select access.
• Billing will be calculated in Provider's account itself.
Reader Account
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