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Use CData Connect Cloud to gain access to live Snowflake data from your Excel spreadsheets.
Microsoft Excel is a widely used spreadsheet software application, primarily used for tasks related to data management, analysis, and visualization. When combined with CData Connect Cloud, you gain immediate access to Snowflake data directly within Excel, facilitating data analysis, collaboration, calculations, and more.This article shows how to connect to Snowflake in your Connect Cloud instance and access and update live Snowflake data in Excel spreadsheets.
CData Connect Cloud provides a pure cloud-to-cloud interface for Snowflake, allowing you to easily access live Snowflake data in Excel for the web. Simply use the Connect Cloud Add-In to query live data (or write your own). Using optimized data processing out of the box, CData Connect Cloud pushes all supported query operations (filters, JOINs, etc) directly to Snowflake, leveraging server-side processing to quickly return Snowflake data.
About Snowflake Data Integration
CData simplifies access and integration of live Snowflake data. Our customers leverage CData connectivity to:
- Reads and write Snowflake data quickly and efficiently.
- Dynamically obtain metadata for the specified Warehouse, Database, and Schema.
- Authenticate in a variety of ways, including OAuth, OKTA, Azure AD, Azure Managed Service Identity, PingFederate, private key, and more.
Many CData users use CData solutions to access Snowflake from their preferred tools and applications, and replicate data from their disparate systems into Snowflake for comprehensive warehousing and analytics.
For more information on integrating Snowflake with CData solutions, refer to our blog: https://www.cdata.com/blog/snowflake-integrations.
Getting Started
This setup requires a CData Connect Cloud instance and the CData Connect Cloud Add-In for Excel. To get started, sign up a free trial of Connect Cloud and install the free Connect Cloud Excel Add-In.
Configure Snowflake Connectivity for Excel
Connectivity to Snowflake from Excel is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Snowflake data from Excel, we start by creating and configuring a Snowflake connection.
- Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
- Select "Snowflake" from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Snowflake.
To connect to Snowflake:
- Set User and Password to your Snowflake credentials and set the AuthScheme property to PASSWORD or OKTA.
- Set URL to the URL of the Snowflake instance (i.e.: https://myaccount.snowflakecomputing.com).
- Set Warehouse to the Snowflake warehouse.
- (Optional) Set Account to your Snowflake account if your URL does not conform to the format above.
- (Optional) Set Database and Schema to restrict the tables and views exposed.
See the Getting Started guide in the CData driver documentation for more information.
- Click Create & Test
- Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Snowflake Connection page and update the User-based permissions.
With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to Snowflake data from Excel.
Access Live Snowflake Data in Excel
The steps below outline connecting to CData Connect Cloud from Excel to access live Snowflake data.
- Open Excel, create a new sheet (or open an existing one).
- Click Insert and click Get Add-ins. (if you have already installed the Add-In, jump to step 4).
- Search for CData Connect Cloud Add-In and install the Add-in.
- Click Data and open the CData Connect Cloud Add-In.
- In the Add-In panel, click Authorize to authenticate with your CData Connect Cloud instance
- In the CData Connect Cloud panel in Excel, click Import
- Choose a Connection (e.g. Snowflake1), Table (e.g. Products), and Columns to import
- Optionally add Filters, Sorting, and a Limit
- Click Execute to import the data
Update Snowflake Data from Excel
In addition to viewing Snowflake data in Excel, CData Connect Cloud also lets you update and delete Snowflake data. Begin by importing data (as described above).
- Update any cell or cells with changes you want to push to Snowflake (your changes will be in red)
- In the CData Connect Cloud Add-In panel, select Update
- Optionally highlight the cell(s) you wish to update and select an update option ("Update All" or "Update Selected")
- Click Execute to push the updates to Snowflake
A notification will appear when the update is complete
Live Access to Snowflake Data from Cloud Applications
New, you have a direct, cloud-to-cloud connection to live Snowflake data from your Excel workbook. You can add more data to your workbook for calculations, aggregations, collaboration, and more.
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