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Connecting to Snowflake Using Federated SAML IdP

Publish Date: Apr 29, 2025
Task

How to connect to to Snowflake using your federated SAML identity provider and secure SSO (single sign-on)

Steps
Select 'Sign in using OAuth' as the Authentication method in the Snowflake connector in Tableau Desktop. 

If you are unable to connect to Snowflake using OAuth in Tableau Desktop, please verify the following: 
  1. The latest Snowflake ODBC driver is installed on your computer. You can download the driver from https://sfc-repo.snowflakecomputing.com/odbc/index.html
  2. Snowflake account administrators have configured OAuth access to Snowflake for Tableau as a partner application. See this Snowflake document.
Additional Resources
For more information on how to connect to Snowflake using OAuth, see this Help document.

According to Snowflake documentation, Snowflake supports OAuth with Federated Authentication and SSO (single sign-on) using any identity provider (IdP) supported by Snowflake, which includes most SAML 2.0-compliant vendors as an IdP, such as:
  • Microsoft ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services)
  • Google G Suite
  • Microsoft Azure Active Directory
  • Onelogin
  • Ping Identity PingOne
Knowledge Article Number

001456839

 
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