While in general it's easiest to get started with hyperquery by simply using any existing account that can query tables, it can be cleaner to create a dedicated Snowflake account for us to use with a dedicated role. We'll go through the following steps here:

1. Create a new role and a new user.
2. Create a new warehouse [optional].

We'll provide you a series of commands that can be executed in the Snowflake console to accomplish this. Remember to run all of the commands - by default the "Run" button in the Snowflake GUI will only run the query that is beneath the cursor (each of the following code blocks is comprised of multiple queries!).

🆕 Create a new role and user

We'll start by creating a new role, hq_role. Modify the password field below before executing.

use role accountadmin;

create role if not exists hq_role;
grant role hq_role to role SYSADMIN;

create user if not exists hq_user
password = '<enter password here>';

grant role hq_role to user hq_user;
alter user hq_user
set default_role = hq_role;

📖 Grant access to your new role

The following will grant two kinds of privileges: USAGE and SELECT. Read more about Snowflake privileges here.

grant usage on database <your_database> to role hq_role;
grant usage on future schemas in database <your_database> to role hq_role;
grant select on future tables in database <your_database> to role hq_role;

Depending on how you want to use hyperquery, you may want to add additional privileges -- users commonly grant update and create permissions as well.
See this article if you want to add schema-level (or tighter) restrictions at the Snowflake-level.

🏢 Create a new warehouse [optional]
You're welcome to use an existing warehouse, but if you'd like to customize the experience for your team, you can create a new warehouse as follows below. Make sure to customize the size of the warehouse.

create warehouse if not exists hq_wh
warehouse_size = small
warehouse_type = standard
auto_suspend = 1800
auto_resume = true
initially_suspended = true;

grant all privileges
on warehouse hq_wh
to role hq_role;

You should be good to go!
To connect this warehouse, specify the following details in your warehouse connection, along with your other connection details.

username: hq_user
warehouse: hq_wh

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