Chapter 7: Secure Data Sharing

Traditional warehouse solutions share data by extracting the data out and sending it over transport mechanisms such as FTP and email. A downside to this is that as soon as the data is extracted, it is already out of date. Snowflake overcomes this by providing a unique data-sharing solution that ensures reduced costs, reduced operational overhead, and always provides up-to-date data.

This chapter details how to share data with other Snowflake customers as well as non-Snowflake customers.

The following recipes will be covered in this chapter:

  • Sharing a table with another Snowflake account
  • Sharing data through a view with another Snowflake account
  • Sharing a complete database with another Snowflake account and setting ...

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