JDBC Driver Connection Parameter Reference¶

Specifies whether to allow underscores in account names. The JDBC Driver does not support underscores in URLs, which include the account name, so the JDBC Driver automatically converts underscores to hyphens. The default value is false.

Specifies the authenticator to use for verifying user login credentials. You can set this to one of the following values:

• snowflake to use the internal Snowflake authenticator.

• externalbrowser to use your web browser to authenticate with Okta, AD FS, or any other SAML 2.0-compliant identity provider (IdP) that has been defined for your account.

• https://<okta_account_name>.okta.com (i.e. the URL endpoint for your Okta account) to authenticate through native Okta (only supported if your IdP is Okta).

• oauth to authenticate using OAuth. When OAuth is specified as the authenticator, you must also set the token parameter to specify the OAuth token (see below).

• snowflake_jwt to authenticate using key pair authentication. For more details about key pair authentication, see Using Key Pair Authentication & Key Rotation.

• username_password_mfa to authenticate with MFA token caching. For more details, see Using Multi-Factor Authentication

If the connection string specifies a key pair, then key pair authentication will be used even if the authenticator parameter is unset or is set to ‘snowflake’.

For more information on authentication, see Managing/Using Federated Authentication and Clients, Drivers, and Connectors.

Specifies the passcode to use for multi-factor authentication.

For more information about multi-factor authentication, see Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

Specifies the password for the specified user.

There are two ways to specify the password:

• The first way is to pass the user ID and password directly to the getConnection method:

  String user = "<user>";          // replace "<user>" with your user name
  String password = "<password>";  // replace "<password>" with your password
  Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:snowflake://<account>.snowflakecomputing.com/", user, password);
  

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• The second way is to create a Properties object, update the object with the password, and pass the object to the getConnection method:

  String user = "<user>";          // replace "<user>" with your user name
  String password = "<password>";  // replace "<password>" with your password
  Properties props = new Properties();
  props.put("user", user);
  props.put("password", password);
  Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:snowflake://<account>.snowflakecomputing.com/", props);
  

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Specifies the OAuth token to use for authentication, where <string> is the token. This parameter is required only when setting the authenticator parameter to oauth, except as noted below.

For example, instead of setting he token configuration parameter, you can pass the token as the password in the getConnection() method properties, similar to the following:

Properties props = new Properties();
props.put("user", "myusername");
props.put("authenticator", "oauth");
props.put("role", "myrole");
props.put("password", "xxxxxxxxxxxxx"); // where xxxxxxxxxxxxx is the token string
Connection myconnection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, props);

Specifies the default database to use once connected, or specifies an empty string. The specified database should be an existing database for which the specified default role has privileges.

If you need to use a different database after connecting, execute the USE DATABASE command.

Specifies the default access control role to use in the Snowflake session initiated by the driver. The specified role should be an existing role that has already been assigned to the specified user for the driver. If the specified role has not already been assigned to the user, the role is not used when the session is initiated by the driver.

If you need to use a different role after connecting, execute the USE ROLE command.

For more information about roles and access control, see Overview of Access Control.

Specifies the default schema to use for the specified database once connected, or specifies an empty string. The specified schema should be an existing schema for which the specified default role has privileges.

If you need to use a different schema after connecting, execute the USE SCHEMA command.

Specifies the virtual warehouse to use once connected, or specifies an empty string. The specified warehouse should be an existing warehouse for which the specified default role has privileges.

If you need to use a different warehouse after connecting, execute the USE WAREHOUSE command can be executed to set a different warehouse for the session.

Specifies whether the driver should ignore the SOCKS proxy configuration specified in the Java system options:

• on (or true) specifies to ignore the proxy.

• off (or false) or any other value specifies to use the proxy.

Specifies whether the driver should use a proxy:

• on (or true) specifies that the driver should use a proxy.

• off (or false) or any other value specifies that the driver should not use a proxy.

See Specifying a Proxy Server in the JDBC Connection String for details.