---
title: Query Snowflake
list_title: Snowflake
description: >
  Use [`sql.from()`](/flux/v0/stdlib/sql/from/) with the `snowflake` driver to query Snowflake.
menu:
  flux_v0:
    name: Snowflake
    parent: SQL databases
weight: 101
related:
  - /flux/v0/stdlib/sql/from/
list_code_example: |
  ```js
  import "sql"
  
  sql.from(
      driverName: "snowflake",
      dataSourceName: "user:password@account/db/exampleschema?warehouse=wh",
      query: "SELECT * FROM example_table",
  )
  ```
---

To query [Snowflake](https://www.snowflake.com/) with Flux:

1. Import the [`sql` package](/flux/v0/stdlib/sql/).
2. Use [`sql.from()`](/flux/v0/stdlib/sql/from/) and provide the following parameters:

    - **driverName**: snowflake
    - **dataSourceName**: _See [data source name](#snowflake-data-source-name)_
    - **query**: SQL query to execute

```js
import "sql"

sql.from(
    driverName: "snowflake",
    dataSourceName: "user:password@account/db/exampleschema?warehouse=wh",
    query: "SELECT * FROM example_table",
)
```

---

## Snowflake data source name
The `snowflake` driver uses the following DSN syntaxes (also known as a **connection string**):

```
username[:password]@accountname/dbname/schemaname?param1=value1&paramN=valueN
username[:password]@accountname/dbname?param1=value1&paramN=valueN
username[:password]@hostname:port/dbname/schemaname?account=<your_account>&param1=value1&paramN=valueN
```

## Snowflake to Flux data type conversion
`sql.from()` converts Snowflake data types to Flux data types.

| Snowflake data type         | Flux data type                                                                                                     |
| :-------------------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| FIXED, NUMBER               | [int](/flux/v0/data-types/basic/int/) or [float](/flux/v0/data-types/basic/float/) (depending on decimal size) |
| REAL, FLOAT                 | [float](/flux/v0/data-types/basic/float/)                                                                        |
| TIMESTAMP_TZ, TIMESTAMP_LTZ | [time](/flux/v0/data-types/basic/time/)                                                                          |
| BOOLEAN                     | [bool](/flux/v0/data-types/basic/bool/)                                                                          |

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All other Snowflake data types (including **TIMESTAMP_NTZ**, **DATE** and **TIME**)
are converted to strings.
{{% /caption %}}