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Data & Analytics · Intermediate

Snowflake System-Defined Roles

Snowflake's built-in roles: ORGADMIN, ACCOUNTADMIN, SECURITYADMIN, USERADMIN, SYSADMIN and PUBLIC.

Definition

ACCOUNTADMIN combines SYSADMIN and SECURITYADMIN and should be tightly limited with MFA. SECURITYADMIN manages grants globally (MANAGE GRANTS) and inherits USERADMIN, which creates users and roles. SYSADMIN creates warehouses and databases, and custom roles should roll up to SYSADMIN. PUBLIC is granted to every user.

Exam tip

Best practice: don't use ACCOUNTADMIN for daily work, create objects with SYSADMIN or custom roles, and grant custom roles to SYSADMIN.

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