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title: "Snowflake: ask your warehouse in plain words · Adea"
description: "Adea reads your Snowflake warehouse through a read-only user and answers your questions in plain words, with the query shown."
url: https://adea.app/integrations/snowflake
---

# Ask Snowflake what your numbers say, in plain words.

Connect a role that can only read, and ask about revenue, retention or stock. Adea answers and shows the query it ran.

[Connect Snowflake](https://adea.app/signup) [Read the setup guide](https://adea.app/docs/connect-database)

You can connect Snowflake today.

## What Adea reads from Snowflake

- Databases, schemas and tables the role can read
- Views your team already keeps for reporting
- Totals and trends, read with plain SELECT queries
- A small warehouse of your choice, so Deep credits stay predictable

## How it connects

A user that can only read

[Read the setup guide](https://adea.app/docs/connect-database)

## What you can ask

You ask

What is monthly recurring revenue by plan for September?

Adea answers

€212,400 in total. Team is €121,900, 57 percent, and Business is €74,300. The 12 Enterprise accounts add €16,200.

You ask

How many customers churned in Q3?

Adea answers

318 of 6,240, 5.1 percent. Churn was highest in the first month after sign-up, with 121 of the 318.

## Questions about Snowflake

### How does Adea sign in to Snowflake?

You create a user and a role that can only read, and give Adea the details. Adea checks that it cannot write, and connects from fixed addresses you can allow.

### Does Adea write anything to my warehouse?

No. It only reads.

### Which data does Adea see?

Only what the role can read. Limit the role and you limit Adea.

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## Other sources like this

[BigQuery](https://adea.app/integrations/bigquery) [Amazon Redshift](https://adea.app/integrations/redshift) [ClickHouse](https://adea.app/integrations/clickhouse) [Databricks](https://adea.app/integrations/databricks) [All sources](https://adea.app/integrations)

## What do you want to know?

[Start free](https://adea.app/signup) [Book 20 minutes](mailto:hello@adea.app?subject=20%20minutes%20about%20Adea)