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Snowflex ❄💪

This application encapsulates an ODBC connection pool for connecting to the Snowflake data warehouse.

Setup

The following config options can be set:

config :snowflex,
driver: "/path/to/my/ODBC/driver" # defaults to "/usr/lib/snowflake/odbc/lib/libSnowflake.so"

Connection pools are not automatically started for you. You will need to define and establish each connection pool in your application module.

First, create a module to hold your connection information:

defmodule MyApp.SnowflakeConnection do
use Snowflex.Connection,
otp_app: :my_app
end

Define your configuration:

import Config
# ...
config :my_app, MyApp.SnowflakeConnection,
connection: [
role: "PROD",
warehouse: System.get_env("SNOWFLAKE_POS_WH"),
uid: System.get_env("SNOWFLAKE_POS_UID"),
pwd: System.get_env("SNOWFLAKE_POS_PWD")
]
# you may define multiple connection modules
config :my_app, MyApp.MyOtherSnowflakeConnection,
worker: MyApp.MockWorker # defaults to Snowflex.Worker (change for testing/development)
connection: [
role: "PROD",
warehouse: System.get_env("SNOWFLAKE_ADVERTISING_WH"),
uid: System.get_env("SNOWFLAKE_ADVERTISING_UID"),
pwd: System.get_env("SNOWFLAKE_ADVERTISING_PWD")
]

Then, in your application module, you would start your connection:

def MyApp.Application do
use Application
def start(_type, _args) do
children = [
MyApp.SnowflakeConnection,
MyApp.MyOtherSnowflakeConnection
]
opts = [strategy: :one_for_one, name: MyApp.Supervisor]
Supervisor.start_link(children, opts)
end
end

Caveats

If you are planning to connect to the Snowflake warehouse, your local Erlang instance must have ODBC enabled. The erlang installed by Homebrew does NOT have ODBC support. The asdf version of erlang does have ODBC support. You will also need the Snowflake ODBC driver installed on your machine. You can download this from https://sfc-repo.snowflakecomputing.com/odbc/index.html.

Installation

The package can be installed by adding snowflex to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
[
{:snowflex, "~> 0.2.0"}
]
end