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Connecting Excel with Snowflake

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Written by Matt Harris
Updated over 4 months ago

To connect Excel with Snowflake, follow these steps:

  1. In the Windows search bar on your desktop, search for "ODBC".
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  2. Open "ODBC Data Sources".

  3. Click "Add".
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  4. Choose "SnowflakeDSIIDriver", click "Finish".

  5. Choose any alias for "Data Source".

  6. Enter info from your Snowflake account as "Server" as follows:

    “[organization ID]-[account name].snowflakecomputing.com”
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  7. You can get your organization ID and account name by hovering over your profile and then the account in Snowflake.

  8. Enter database, warehouse, role (e.g., ACCOUNTADMIN), user, and password either in the configuration or when in Excel.

  9. Click "OK" to finish.

  10. Open Excel, click on the Data tab, click "Get Data", "From Other Sources", "From ODBC".

  11. Choose "Snowflake" connection.

  12. Enter the remaining details and click "Connect".

  13. You can now choose from all the tables being shared in Snowflake to bring in as a table or pivot table.

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