Question

A provider account wants to share a curated database with a business partner who already has their own Snowflake account in the same cloud region. The provider wants the partner to query the data in real time without the provider paying for the partner's compute or creating a managed account. Which sharing approach should the provider use?

Accepted Answer

Create a direct share and add the partner's account as a consumer to the share

Answer

Create a reader account for the partner and grant it access to the share

Answer

Use database replication to copy the database into the partner's account

Answer

Publish the data as a public listing on the Snowflake Marketplace