Mar 20, 2026: DCM Projects (Preview)

Snowflake DCM Projects are now available in preview. DCM Projects enable a declarative approach to managing Snowflake objects as code. You define the desired target state of your databases, tables, tasks, and other Snowflake objects in definition files, and Snowflake determines and applies the necessary changes to reach that state.

DCM Projects support version-controlled, idempotent deployments across environments (such as dev, staging, and production) using a plan-then-deploy workflow. Key capabilities include:

  • Declarative definitions: Use DEFINE statements in SQL files to describe the desired state of your Snowflake objects. Snowflake determines the changes needed and applies them automatically.

  • Jinja templating: Parameterize your definitions with variables, loops, conditions, and macros to reduce repetition and support multi-environment deployments.

  • Plan-then-deploy workflow: Reliably preview planned changes before deploying them to catch unintended modifications.

  • Broad object support: Manage a wide variety of Snowflake object types across infrastructure, data pipeline, and governance use cases.

  • Pipeline management: Build, test, and deploy data pipelines using dynamic tables, tasks, and data quality expectations.

DCM Projects can be managed using Snowsight, Snowflake CLI, SQL, or Cortex Code CLI. Project definition files can be stored in a Snowflake Workspace, a remote Git repository, or a local directory.

For more information, see Snowflake DCM Projects.