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Manage and administer Snowflake accounts, data security, and governance

A Snowflake account uses SCIM provisioning for user accounts and has bidirectional synchronization of user identities. An Administrator with access to SECURITYADMIN creates a user in the Snowflake UI by issuing these commands:

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The new user, PTORRES, logs in successfully but sees PUBLIC as the default role in the web UI. The following command fails when attempted:

USE DEVELOPER_ROLE;

Why does this command fail?

Explanation

Setting DEFAULT_ROLE does not grant that role to a user. DEVELOPER_ROLE must be explicitly granted to PTORRES before the user can activate it with USE DEVELOPER_ROLE; otherwise, the user has only the automatically available PUBLIC role.

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