Question

A data provider wants to share curated datasets with a small business partner who does not have a Snowflake account and has no intention of purchasing one. The partner only needs to run read-only queries against the shared data occasionally. The provider creates a reader account for this partner. Which statement correctly describes how compute usage and billing work for this reader account?

Accepted Answer

The reader account queries the shared data using compute resources provisioned and billed to the provider account that created it.

Answer

The partner must sign up for a Snowflake trial account, and their own account is billed for all compute used against the shared data.

Answer

Compute for reader account queries is free of charge because reader accounts are limited to read-only operations.

Answer

The reader account shares the provider's virtual warehouses directly, so no separate warehouses need to be created in the reader account.