Managing Governance in Snowflake¶
These topics summarize the governance features in Snowflake.
These topics are intended primarily for administrators (i.e. users with the ACCOUNTADMIN, SYSADMIN, or SECURITYADMIN roles).
Summary of Governance Features
List of all governance features.
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Allows the application of a masking policy to a column within a table or view.
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Allows the application of a row access policy to a table or view to determine which rows are visible in the query result.
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Allows the tracking of sensitive data for compliance, discovery, protection, and resource usage.
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Allows protecting column data by assigning a masking policy to a tag and then setting the tag on a database object or the Snowflake account.
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Allows categorizing potentially personal and/or sensitive data to support compliance and privacy regulations.
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Allows the auditing of the user access history through the Account Usage ACCESS_HISTORY View.
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Allows the auditing of how one object references another object by its metadata (e.g. creating a view depends on a table name and column names) through the Account Usage OBJECT_DEPENDENCIES view.