Defaulting accounts from Worksheets to Workspaces¶

Starting in September 2025, Snowflake will gradually default accounts from Worksheets to Workspaces.

Cohort	Timing of change
New organizations	Currently available to some new customers
On Demand accounts	Gradual rollout begins in September
Organizations with only Standard Edition accounts	Gradual rollout begins in September
Organizations with only Enterprise Edition and below accounts	Gradual rollout date not yet set
Organizations with only Business Critical Edition and below accounts	Gradual rollout date not yet set
Organizations with Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) and below accounts	Gradual rollout date not yet set

Note

Classic Console users will be upgraded to Workspaces starting in September 2025.

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 in the Workspaces editor, and navigation options to Worksheets will be replaced with Workspaces. For now, users can still navigate back to the original Worksheets editor from within Workspaces or revert the default themselves.

Users can return to Worksheets by selecting Go to Worksheets from the Workspaces UI:

Select ellipsis menu and select Go to Worksheets

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

To set the account-wide default editor to be Workspaces for all users:

ALTER ACCOUNT SET USE_WORKSPACES_FOR_SQL = 'always';

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

ALTER ACCOUNT UNSET USE_WORKSPACES_FOR_SQL;

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To revert to the previous editor and temporarily ignore any Snowflake-managed BCR that makes Workspaces the default:

ALTER ACCOUNT SET USE_WORKSPACES_FOR_SQL = 'never';

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Note

Worksheets will eventually become deprecated and the command above will no longer work. If you had previously set this parameter, it will be automatically cleared once Worksheets is deprecated. Snowflake will provide advance notice when a deprecation date is available.

For more information on Workspaces, see Workspaces.

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