JDBC Driver¶

JDBC 0.0.6 Private Preview - Universal Core

A version of the Snowflake JDBC Driver built on the Universal Core is available in private preview. Preview participants can download the snowflake-jdbc-native-all JAR from Maven Central.

Use this driver only if you are participating in the private preview, subject to Snowflake’s Preview Terms. It may be unstable and is not ready for use with production data. Use it only for internal evaluation; do not use it to process personal data or other data subject to compliance or legal requirements.

The documentation below applies to the existing JDBC driver. For the Universal Core version, follow the preview installation instructions.

Note

Version 3.21.0 introduced support for Google Cloud Storage regional endpoints.

Earlier versions of the driver do not support Google Cloud Storage regional endpoints. Please ensure that any workloads that use this driver do not require support for regional endpoints on Google Cloud. If you have questions about this, please contact Snowflake Support.

Snowflake provides a JDBC type 4 driver that supports core JDBC functionality. The JDBC driver must be installed in a 64-bit environment and requires Java LTS (Long-Term Support) versions 1.8 or higher.

The driver can be used with most client tools/applications that support JDBC for connecting to a database server. sfsql, the now-deprecated command-line client provided by Snowflake, is an example of a JDBC-based application.

For a complete list of the connection parameters the driver accepts, including what each one does, see JDBC Driver connection parameter reference.

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