Sign up: Snowflake customer

If you’re an existing Snowflake customer, you can sign up for Polaris Catalog™ by using Snowsight or the CREATE ACCOUNT Snowflake SQL command.

Note

If you’re using a Snowflake free trial account and you want to sign up for Polaris Catalog, see Sign up: Not a Snowflake customer.

You only need one Polaris Catalog account for your organization, so you should only sign up once. When you sign up, a Polaris Catalog account is created for your organization.

Note

To create a Polaris Catalog account, you must be a user with the organization administrator (ORGADMIN) role.

Sign up using Snowsight

To sign up for Polaris Catalog by using Snowsight, do the following:

  1. Sign in to Snowsight.

  2. Select Admin >> Accounts.

  3. Select the drop-down and then select Create Polaris account.

    Screenshot that shows the Accounts page in Snowsight.

  4. From the Create Polaris Account dialog, complete the fields:

    • Cloud: The cloud provider where you want to store Apache Iceberg™ tables.

    • Region: The region where you want to store Iceberg tables.

    • Edition: The edition for your Polaris Catalog account. To enable Private Link, select Business Critical Edition or higher as the edition and reach out to Snowflake support.

  5. Select Next.

  6. From the Create New Account dialog, complete the Account Name, User Name, Password, and Email fields.

  7. Select Create Account. Your new Polaris Catalog Account is created and a confirmation box appears.

  8. In the confirmation box, select the Account Locator URL to open the Account Locator URL in your web browser.

  9. Bookmark the Account Locator URL. When signing in to Polaris Catalog, you must specify the Account Locator URL.

Sign up using Snowflake SQL

To sign up for Polaris Catalog by using Snowflake SQL, run the following CREATE ACCOUNT SQL command to create a Polaris Catalog account:

CREATE ACCOUNT <account_name>
ADMIN_NAME = <admin_user_name>
ADMIN_PASSWORD = '<admin_user_password>'
MUST_CHANGE_PASSWORD = { TRUE | FALSE }
EMAIL = '<admin_user_email>'
EDITION = standard
REGION = <cloud_region>
POLARIS = TRUE;
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For more information, see CREATE ACCOUNT.

Important

After you run the CREATE ACCOUNT SQL command, copy the accountLocatorUrl in the command output and save it for signing in to Polaris Catalog. The account URL you use to sign in to Polaris Catalog is the accountLocatorUrl but without the trailing “polaris”.

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