Snowsight quick tour¶

In Snowsight, you can perform data analysis and engineering tasks, monitor query and data loading and transformation activity, explore your Snowflake database objects, and administer your Snowflake database, including managing the cost and adding users and roles.

Snowsight lets you:

Build, test, and deploy Snowpark Python Worksheets.
Write queries and code, and take advantage of autocomplete for database objects and SQL functions in worksheets.
Organize worksheets into folders.
Share worksheets and dashboards with other users.
Visualize worksheet results in charts and dashboards.
Create and manage database objects such as databases, tables, stages, file formats, and more.
Manage costs and set budgets.
Review query history and data loading history.
See task graphs and run history.
Debug and rerun failed task graphs.
Monitor dynamic table graphs and refreshes.
Manage and create Snowflake users and roles and visualize a hierarchy of roles and their grants.
Perform data governance tasks like masking data, adding policies, and reviewing the governance of your data.

For more information about these and other tasks that you can perform, see Snowsight: The Snowflake web interface.

Write SQL and Snowpark Python code in worksheets¶

Worksheets provide a simple way for you to write SQL queries (DML and DDL), see the results, and interact with them. With a worksheet, you can do any of the following:

Run ad hoc queries and other DDL/DML operations.
Write Snowpark Python code in a Python worksheet.
Review the query history and results of queries that you executed.
Examine multiple worksheets, each with its own separate session.
Export the results for a selected statement, while results are still available.

If you select Worksheets in the navigation menu, you see a list of worksheets, and you can select one to view the worksheet contents and update the worksheet.

For more details, see:

Visualize query results with charts and dashboards¶

When you run a query in Snowsight, you can choose to view your results as a chart. You can also create a collection of charts as a Dashboard, allowing you to review your data more easily. Dashboards provide flexible collections of charts arranged as tiles. Dashboard charts start with SQL to generate results and associated charts. You can share these charts with others, modify the charts, and display them as dashboard tiles.

You can select Dashboards in the navigation menu to see a list of dashboards. Select a dashboard, in this example a Groceries dashboard, to see the dashboard. This image shows a dashboard with a bar chart tile showing the quantity of apples, cheese, and other groceries purchased throughout a year.

To learn more about charts, see Visualizing worksheet data. To learn more about dashboards, see Visualizing data with dashboards

Explore and manage your database objects¶

You can explore and manage your database objects in Snowsight as follows:

Explore databases and objects, including tables, functions, views, and more using the database object explorer.
Create objects like databases, tables, file formats, and more.
Search within the object explorer to browse database objects across your account.
Preview the contents of database objects like tables, and view the files uploaded to a stage.
Load files to an existing table, or create a table from a file so that you can start working with data in Snowflake faster.

Select Data and then Databases to explore and manage your database objects. By default, you see a list of databases to which your active role has access.

To learn more, see:

Monitor activity in Snowsight¶

You can monitor and view query details, explore the performance of executed queries, monitor data loading status and errors, review task graphs, and debug and re-run them as needed. You can also monitor the refresh state of your Dynamic Tables and review the various tagging and security policies that you create to maintain data governance.

The Monitoring section contains Query History, Copy History, Task History, Dynamic Tables, and Governance.

For more information, see:

Perform administrative tasks in Snowsight¶

Admin pages let you understand Snowflake data use, manage warehouses, monitor resources, manage users and roles, administer Snowflake accounts, and more.

You can manage Warehouses, perform Cost Management, access Users and Roles, Accounts, and Contacts from the Admin menu.

For more information, see:

Get account information and update your user profile from the user menu¶

To open the user menu, select your username.

From the user menu, you can:

Change your active role.
Set your email address for notifications, if you are an account administrator.
Manage and update your user profile.
Switch languages for the user session, when additional languages have been enabled for your account.
File Support cases and access the Snowflake documentation.
Determine the organization, edition, cloud platform, and region of the current Snowflake account.
Access the account identifier and account URL.
Switch Snowflake accounts, if you have access to multiple accounts.
Open Classic Console.
Sign out, close your current session, and exit.