Week 32 - Security & Governance
This week we're looking into some new security features that Snowflake has recently released
As you might know, the default idle time for Snowflake sessions is 4 hours BUT that was recently adjusted; you can now change this value on certain levels.
Because we can finetune these numbers, Management has asked us to enforce it for some of our new colleagues :
The challenge for this week :
- Create 2 users
- User 1 should have a max idle time of 8 minutes in the old Snowflake UI
- User 2 should have a max idle time of 10 minutes in SnowSQL and in their communication with Snowflake from tools like Tableau
One of the things we'd be looking for looks like this :

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