Categories:: System functions (System Information)

SYSTEM$VALIDATE_STORAGE_INTEGRATION¶

Validates the configuration for a specified storage integration. The function attempts to write, read, list, or delete the provided file in the defined path using the storage integration.

For more information about configuring storage integrations, see:

See also:: CREATE STORAGE INTEGRATION, ALTER STORAGE INTEGRATION

Syntax¶

SYSTEM$VALIDATE_STORAGE_INTEGRATION( '<storage_integration_name>', '<storage_path>', '<test_file_name>', '<validate_action>' )

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Arguments¶

storage_integration_name

Name of the storage integration to test.

Storage integration names are case-sensitive.

storage_path

The full path to a storage location that you want to validate. The storage path must be a URL in the STORAGE_ALLOWED_LOCATIONS list for the storage integration.

Amazon S3

's3://bucket/path/'

The s3 prefix refers to S3 storage in public AWS regions. The s3gov prefix refers to S3 storage in government regions.

bucket is the name of an S3 bucket that stores your data files.

path is an optional path or directory in the bucket.

Google Cloud Storage

'gcs://bucket/path/'

bucket is the name of a GCS bucket that stores your data files.

path is an optional path or directory in the bucket.

Microsoft Azure

'azure://account.blob.core.windows.net/container/path/'

account is the name of the Azure storage account.

container is the name of an Azure blob storage container that stores your data files.

path is an optional path or directory in the bucket.

test_file_name

The name of the file to use in storage integration validation.

validate_action

The validation action to perform.

Values:

read - Validates that Snowflake can read from the storage location. This action fails if the file doesn’t exist.
write - Validate that Snowflake can write to the storage location. This action fails if the file already exists.
list - Validates that Snowflake can list the files in the storage location.
delete - Validates that Snowflake can delete files in the storage location.
all - Validates all possible actions in the storage location.

Returns¶

The function returns a JSON object with the properties described below:

Property	Description
`status`	The status of the validation test. This will return as `success` if all actions performed as expected or `failure` if any action didn’t perform as expected.
`actions`	Array of objects that contain the requested validation action and status. `READ`, `DELETE`, `LIST`, `WRITE`

{
  "status" : "success",
  "actions" : {
    "READ" : {
      "status" : "success"
    },
    "DELETE" : {
      "status" : "success"
    },
    "LIST" : {
      "status" : "success"
    },
    "WRITE" : {
      "status" : "success"
    }
  }
}

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Examples¶

The following example validates the configuration of the storage integration example_integration for all validation actions. The example returns a successful result in JSON.

SELECT
  SYSTEM$VALIDATE_STORAGE_INTEGRATION('example_integration', 's3://example_bucket/test_path/'', 'validate_all.txt', 'all');

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Result:

+----------------------------+
|           RESULT           |
+----------------------------+
| {                          |
|   "status" : "success",    |
|   "actions" : {            |
|     "READ" : {             |
|       "status" : "success" |
|     },                     |
|     "DELETE" : {           |
|       "status" : "success" |
|     },                     |
|     "LIST" : {             |
|       "status" : "success" |
|     },                     |
|     "WRITE" : {            |
|       "status" : "success" |
|     }                      |
|   }                        |
| }                          |
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The following example shows the result when the storage integration doesn’t have read permissions.

SELECT
  SYSTEM$VALIDATE_STORAGE_INTEGRATION('example_integration', 'gcs://example_bucket/test_path/'', 'read_fail.txt', 'all');

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Output:

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|                                                     RESULT                                                     |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| {                                                                                                              |
|   "status" : "failure",                                                                                        |
|   "actions" : {                                                                                                |
|     "READ" : {                                                                                                 |
|       "message" : "Access Denied (Status Code: 403; Error Code: AccessDenied)",                                |
|       "status" : "failure"                                                                                     |
|     },                                                                                                         |
|     "DELETE" : {                                                                                               |
|       "status" : "success"                                                                                     |
|     },                                                                                                         |
|     "LIST" : {                                                                                                 |
|       "status" : "success"                                                                                     |
|     },                                                                                                         |
|     "WRITE" : {                                                                                                |
|       "status" : "success"                                                                                     |
|     }                                                                                                          |
|   },                                                                                                           |
|   "message" : "Some of the integration checks failed. Check the Snowflake documentation for more information." |
| }                                                                                                              |
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