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Snowflake Accounts
▪ A customer can have as many accounts as they want.
▪ Each account has its own URL – which uses the name of the account.
▪ Each account is deployed on a single cloud provider platform (AWS,
Azure, GCP).
ACCOUNT ▪ Each account exists in a single geographic region.
▪ Each account exists with a single Snowflake Edition (e.g. Standard,
Premier, etc.).

DATABASE
SCHEMA

SCHEMA
OBJECTS

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ACCOUNT

Accounts Contain Databases

DATABASE ▪ Each database belongs to a single Snowflake account.
▪ Databases can be replicated to other accounts, but they cannot SPAN
multiple accounts.
SCHEMA
Databases Contain Schemas
SCHEMA
OBJECTS
▪ Each schema belongs to a single Snowflake database, in a single
account
▪ Schemas can be replicated to other accounts or databases, but they
cannot SPAN accounts or databases
Schemas Contain Other Objects
▪ Objects include tables, views, file formats, sequences, UDFs, &
stored procs
▪ Objects belong to a single schema, in a single database, in a
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 OVERVIEW OBJECT HIERARCHY
Snowflake Accounts
▪ A customer can have as many accounts as they want
▪ Each account has its own URL – which uses the name of the account.
▪ Each account is deployed on a single cloud provider platform (AWS,
Azure, GCP)
ACCOUNT
▪ Each account exists in a single geographic region
▪ Each account
Accounts exists with
Contain a single Snowflake Edition (e.g. Standard,
Databases
DATABASE ▪ Premier, etc.) belongs to a single Snowflake account
Each database
▪ Databases can be replicated to other accounts, but they cannot SPAN
SCHEMA multiple accounts
Databases Contain Schemas
SCHEMA ▪ Each schema belongs to a single Snowflake database, in a single
OBJECTS
account.
▪ Schemas can be replicated to other accounts or databases, but they
cannot SPAN accounts or databases.

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 OVERVIEW OBJECT HIERARCHY
Snowflake Accounts
▪ A customer can have as many accounts as they want
▪ Each account has its own URL – which uses the name of the account.
▪ Each account is deployed on a single cloud provider platform (AWS,
Azure, GCP)
ACCOUNT
▪ Each account exists in a single geographic region
▪ Each account
Accounts exists with
Contain a single Snowflake Edition (e.g. Standard,
Databases
DATABASE ▪ Premier, etc.) belongs to a single Snowflake account
Each database
▪ Databases can be replicated to other accounts, but they cannot SPAN
SCHEMA multiple accounts
Databases Contain Schemas
SCHEMA
OBJECTS
▪ Each schema belongs to a single Snowflake database, in a single
account
▪ Schemas can be replicated to other accounts or databases, but they
cannot SPAN accounts or databases
Schemas Contain Other Objects
▪ Objects include tables, views, file formats, sequences, UDFs, &
stored procedures.
▪ Objects belong to a single schema, in a single database, in a
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