Defaulting accounts from Worksheets to Workspaces¶

Starting September 22, 2025, Snowflake will be gradually defaulting on-demand and standard accounts from Worksheets to Workspaces.

Before the change:

Worksheets is the default SQL editing experience in Snowflake.

After the change:

Workspaces is the default SQL editing experience in Snowflake. Opening a worksheet will open it inside the Workspaces editor. Users can still navigate back to the original Worksheets editor from within Workspaces or revert the default for themselves.

Administrators have several options for managing this transition by setting the USE_WORKSPACES_FOR_SQL parameter:

To set the account-wide default editor to Workspaces:

ALTER ACCOUNT SET USE_WORKSPACES_FOR_SQL = 'always';

To revert this setting and keep the original default editor, but respect any Snowflake-managed BCR that makes Workspaces the default editor:

ALTER ACCOUNT UNSET USE_WORKSPACES_FOR_SQL;

To revert this setting and keep the original default editor, but ignore any Snowflake-managed BCR that makes Workspaces the default editor:

ALTER ACCOUNT SET USE_WORKSPACES_FOR_SQL = 'never';

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