Connecting from RAD Studio

The CData FireDAC Components for Snowflake implement the standard FireDAC classes and integrate Snowflake into RAD Studio wizards. You can access the components from the RAD Studio Tool Palette and use the components alongside standard FireDAC classes like TFDQuery, TFDManager, and TFDConnection.

Connecting from Snowflake

See Establishing a Connection to connect with the Data Explorer and FireDAC Connection Editor wizards.

RAD Studio Version Support

RAD Studio 10.4 (Sydney) and above are supported.

Snowflake Version Support

The component enables standards-based access to all Snowflake editions. You can authenticate with a Snowflake user, SSO, or SSL client authentication. After authenticating, you can execute standard SQL queries to Snowflake tables or set QueryPassthrough to use any of the available Snowflake SQL syntax. For example, you can use extended projection to project columns over semistructured data.

Dependencies

CData FireDAC components require the 2010 version of the VC++ (x86/x64) redistributable package that matches the bitness of RAD Studio being used. You can download this from Microsoft:

2010 VC++ Redistributable package download Note: The appropriate VC++ redistributable package requires distribution with the deployed application.

See Also

• See Creating VCL Applications to use the Form Designer to create a simple VCL application that queries Snowflake.
• See Writing Data Access Code to create TFDConnection objects. See Connection Definitions for other ways to create connections, with TFDManager for example.
• See Using the FireDAC Components for Snowflake-specific examples of executing prepared statements, discovering schemas, and writing other data access code.