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    This document discusses secondary roles in Snowflake. Primary roles are a user's current role, while secondary roles allow a user to have access to objects in multiple roles without switching roles. The syntax to enable secondary roles is USE SECONDARY ROLES ALL to allow access to all granted roles, or USE SECONDARY ROLES NONE to disable secondary roles. Secondary roles provide a way for users to query tables associated with different roles without needing to switch their active primary role.

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    This document discusses secondary roles in Snowflake. Primary roles are a user's current role, while secondary roles allow a user to have access to objects in multiple roles without switching roles. The syntax to enable secondary roles is USE SECONDARY ROLES ALL to allow access to all granted roles, or USE SECONDARY ROLES NONE to disable secondary roles. Secondary roles provide a way for users to query tables associated with different roles without needing to switch their active primary role.

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    Secondary Roles in Snowflake

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    During this post we will discuss about Primary roles and Secondary Roles.
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    Primary Role is your current role. The Role we select by using USE
    <<ROLE>> or the default role assigned to the user at the time of creation.
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    USE SECONDARY ROLES { ALL | NONE }
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    Parameters

    ALL: All roles that have been granted to the user in addition to the current
    active primary role. Note that the set of roles gets reevaluate when each SQL
    statement executes. If additional roles grants to the user, and that user
    executes a new SQL statement, the newly granted roles are active secondary
    roles for the new SQL statement.

    NONE: Disables secondary roles. The authorization for all SQL actions is
    provided via the primary role.

    Consider the scenario we have three different roles Analyst_Role


    ,Tester_Role and Developer Role. Base on Business Requirement, every role
    is authorized to query its own table only. All three Roles are assigned to
    ADMIN_USER.

    ADMIN_USER wants to query the table belongs to TESTER_ROLE. In this case


    user has to switch the Role from current Role i.e ANALYST_ROLE to
    TESTER_ROLE. On the similar lines if user wants to view the table belongs to
    DEVLOPER_ROLE ,user has to select the desired Role. As per the below Screenshot,
    even though all three roles are assign to User but querying the table belongs to
    Secondary Role issue the error.

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    Query Table Error

    Primary and Secondary Roles to User

    Multiple Roles:
    Assuming we have multiple Roles in system and each Role holds multiple
    tables then it would be tedious for User to switch the Role frequently. Here
    the Secondary Roles plays a significance Role.

    Run the Following Command in WEBUI:

    Secondary Role
    We can clearly see DEVELOPER and TESTER Roles are assign to user as
    Secondary Roles.

    Now try to run the same CUSTOM_TABLE query from the WEBUI and verify
    the result.

    Roles Tables

    Therefore, User has access to all the objects by UNION of all ROLES assign to
    it. User need not to remember which particular Role holds which table. He
    can directly query the table without switching to multiple roles.

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