Snowflake Exam DSA-C02 Topic 1 Question 40 Discussion

Data sharing is only supported between Snowflake accounts. As a data provider, you might want to share data with a consumer who does not already have a Snowflake account or is not ready to be-come a licensed Snowflake customer.

To facilitate sharing data with these consumers, you can create reader accounts. Reader accounts (formerly known as ''read-only accounts'') provide a quick, easy, and cost-effective way to share data without requiring the consumer to become a Snowflake customer.

Each reader account belongs to the provider account that created it. As a provider, you use shares to share databases with reader accounts; however, a reader account can only consume data from the provider account that created it.

So, Data Sharing is possible between Snowflake & Non-snowflake accounts via Reader Account.