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Published inFeb 2021
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Hamid Mahmood Qureshi
Hamid Mahmood Qureshi
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Hamid Mahmood Qureshi

Hamid Qureshi is a senior cloud and data warehouse professional with almost two decades of total experience, having architected, designed, and led the implementation of several data warehouse and business intelligence solutions. He has extensive experience and certifications across various data analytics platforms, ranging from Teradata, Oracle, and Hadoop to modern, cloud-based tools such as Snowflake. Having worked extensively with traditional technologies, combined with his knowledge of modern platforms, he has accumulated substantial practical expertise in data warehousing and analytics in Snowflake, which he has subsequently captured in his publications.
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Hammad Sharif
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Hammad Sharif

Hammad Sharif is an experienced data architect with more than a decade of experience in the information domain, covering governance, warehousing, data lakes, streaming data, and machine learning. He has worked with a leading data warehouse vendor for a decade as part of a professional services organization, advising customers in telco, retail, life sciences, and financial industries located in Asia, Europe, and Australia during presales and post-sales implementation cycles. Hammad holds an MSc. in computer science and has published conference papers in the domains of machine learning, sensor networks, software engineering, and remote sensing.
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Creating reader accounts and configuring them for non-Snowflake sharing

Through this recipe, you will create a new reader account and configure the reader account to prepare it for sharing data with non-Snowflake customers.

Getting ready

You will need to be connected to your Snowflake instance via the web UI or the SnowSQL client to execute this recipe. We will act as a data provider and create a reader account subsequently used to share data with non-Snowflake users.

Since we will be creating a reader account, which is an account level activity, ACCOUNTADMIN-level access is required.

How to do it…

We will be utilizing the Snowflake web UI to create this new Reader account. The steps are as follows:

  1. Ensure that you are logged in as a user who has access to the ACCOUNTADMIN role, and that you have changed the effective role to ACCOUNTADMIN in the top-right corner of the Snowflake web UI, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 7.17 – Role selection...

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Hamid Mahmood Qureshi

Hamid Qureshi is a senior cloud and data warehouse professional with almost two decades of total experience, having architected, designed, and led the implementation of several data warehouse and business intelligence solutions. He has extensive experience and certifications across various data analytics platforms, ranging from Teradata, Oracle, and Hadoop to modern, cloud-based tools such as Snowflake. Having worked extensively with traditional technologies, combined with his knowledge of modern platforms, he has accumulated substantial practical expertise in data warehousing and analytics in Snowflake, which he has subsequently captured in his publications.
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Hammad Sharif

Hammad Sharif is an experienced data architect with more than a decade of experience in the information domain, covering governance, warehousing, data lakes, streaming data, and machine learning. He has worked with a leading data warehouse vendor for a decade as part of a professional services organization, advising customers in telco, retail, life sciences, and financial industries located in Asia, Europe, and Australia during presales and post-sales implementation cycles. Hammad holds an MSc. in computer science and has published conference papers in the domains of machine learning, sensor networks, software engineering, and remote sensing.
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