Road to Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification: Roles in Snowflake
Fourteenth Chapter: Access Management. Roles in Snowflake
6 min readOct 19, 2021
Access management is one of the most important security-related features in Snowflake. Depending on the role we give to the users, we can control exactly which functions they can execute. Let’s take a closer look!
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ACCESS MANAGEMENT KEY CONCEPTS
Access control privileges determine who can access and perform operations on specific objects in Snowflake. The Snowflake approach combines aspects from the following models:
- Discretionary Access Control (DAC) → Each object has an owner who can, in turn, grant access to that object.