Share Snowflake tables and secure views with a consumer account using a secure share, or publish the same share as a listing
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Documented steps
As ACCOUNTADMIN (or a role granted the account-level CREATE SHARE privilege, which only ACCOUNTADMIN holds by default): `CREATE SHARE sales_s COMMENT='sales data share';`
`GRANT USAGE ON DATABASE sales_db TO SHARE sales_s;` — USAGE on only one database can be granted per share.
`GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA sales_db.aggregates TO SHARE sales_s;`
`GRANT SELECT ON TABLE sales_db.aggregates.agg_1 TO SHARE sales_s;` — only secure views are shareable, not standard views.
Optionally bundle grants in a database role instead: `CREATE DATABASE ROLE sales_db.dr1;` grant USAGE/SELECT to it, then `GRANT DATABASE ROLE sales_db.dr1 TO SHARE sales_s;`
Add consumer accounts (same region and cloud platform as the provider): `ALTER SHARE sales_s ADD ACCOUNTS = xy12345, yz23456;`
In the consumer account, a role with CREATE DATABASE and IMPORT SHARE runs: `CREATE DATABASE consumer_db FROM SHARE provider_account.sales_s;`
Verify with `SHOW SHARES;`, `DESC SHARE sales_s;`, and `SHOW GRANTS TO SHARE sales_s;`
Alternative distribution: publish the same secure share as a listing via Snowsight (Marketplace > Provider Studio > Create Listing), choosing 'Specified Consumers' or 'Snowflake Marketplace' as the audience and attaching the existing share as the data product.
Listing creation requires ACCOUNTADMIN or a role with the global CREATE LISTING privilege plus CREATE SHARE and grants on the underlying objects. Marketplace-audience listings require review/approval; private listings publish directly.
When new objects are added to the shared database later, explicitly GRANT them to the share (or to the database role granted to the share).
Official documentation: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/data-sharing-provider | https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/sql/create-share | https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/sql/grant-privilege-share | https://docs.snowflake.com/en/collaboration/provider-listings-creating-publishing
Known gotchas
ALTER SHARE ... ADD ACCOUNTS only works for consumer accounts in the same region AND cloud platform. Cross-region or cross-cloud sharing requires replicating the database to a local account first, then sharing from there.
Only SECURE views can be granted to a share — a standard view raises an error. External tables, secure materialized views, and secure UDFs spanning multiple databases must be configured via SQL rather than the Snowsight wizard.
USAGE on only one database can be granted to any single share.
Objects created inside an already-shared database are NOT automatically visible to consumers — a new explicit GRANT is required, because future grants do not apply to shares. This is the most common 'the consumer can't see the new table' cause.
Consumers get strictly read-only access, can create only one local database per share, and cannot re-share objects that came from a share.
REFERENCE_USAGE must be granted on a database before you can grant SELECT on a secure view that references objects in another database.
Enable CHANGE_TRACKING = TRUE on shared tables before consumers attempt to create streams on them.
Provider sharing/listing capability is not enabled for every account type by default — if CREATE SHARE or listing publication fails unexpectedly, contact Snowflake Support rather than assuming a privilege error.
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