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⇱ Use ChatGPT to Talk to Your Snowflake Data via CData Connect AI

Use ChatGPT to Talk to Your Snowflake Data via CData Connect AI

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Leverage the CData Connect AI Remote MCP Server to enable ChatGPT to securely answer questions and take actions on your Snowflake data for you.

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI, launched in November 2022. Based on large language models (LLMs), it enables users to refine and steer conversations through natural language processing. ChatGPT's developer mode, available to Plus and Pro subscribers, provides full Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for connecting to external data sources and tools.

CData Connect AI offers a dedicated cloud-to-cloud interface for connecting to Snowflake data. The CData Connect AI Remote MCP Server enables secure communication between ChatGPT and Snowflake. This allows you to ask questions and take actions on your Snowflake data using ChatGPT, all without the need for data replication to a natively supported database. With its inherent optimized data processing capabilities, CData Connect AI efficiently channels all supported SQL operations, including filters and JOINs, directly to Snowflake. This leverages server-side processing to swiftly deliver the requested Snowflake data.

About Snowflake Data Integration

CData simplifies access and integration of live Snowflake data. Our customers leverage CData connectivity to:

  • Reads and write Snowflake data quickly and efficiently.
  • Dynamically obtain metadata for the specified Warehouse, Database, and Schema.
  • Authenticate in a variety of ways, including OAuth, OKTA, Azure AD, Azure Managed Service Identity, PingFederate, private key, and more.

Many CData users use CData solutions to access Snowflake from their preferred tools and applications, and replicate data from their disparate systems into Snowflake for comprehensive warehousing and analytics.

For more information on integrating Snowflake with CData solutions, refer to our blog: https://www.cdata.com/blog/snowflake-integrations.


Getting Started


Step 1: Configure Snowflake Connectivity for ChatGPT

Connectivity to Snowflake from ChatGPT is made possible through CData Connect AI Remote MCP. To interact with Snowflake data from ChatGPT, we start by creating and configuring a Snowflake connection in CData Connect AI.

  1. Log into your Connect AI account, click Sources, and then click Add Connection.
    2. 👁 Adding a Connection
  2. Select "Snowflake" from the Add Connection panel.
    3. 👁 Selecting a data source
  3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Snowflake.

    To connect to Snowflake:

    1. Set User and Password to your Snowflake credentials and set the AuthScheme property to PASSWORD or OKTA.
    2. Set URL to the URL of the Snowflake instance (i.e.: https://myaccount.snowflakecomputing.com).
    3. Set Warehouse to the Snowflake warehouse.
    4. (Optional) Set Account to your Snowflake account if your URL does not conform to the format above.
    5. (Optional) Set Database and Schema to restrict the tables and views exposed.
    6. (Optional) If MFA is enabled on your Snowflake account (via Duo Security), set MFACode to the passcode generated by your Duo authenticator app.

    See the Getting Started guide in the CData driver documentation for more information.

    👁 Configuring a connection (Salesforce is shown)
  4. Click Save & Test

With the connection configured, we are ready to connect to Snowflake data from ChatGPT.

Step 2: Connect ChatGPT to CData Connect AI

Follow these steps to add a CData Connect AI connection in ChatGPT:

  1. Sign in to ChatGPT with a Plus or Pro subscription.
  2. Navigate to Apps from the left panel.
  3. Select the CData Connect AI app from the list.
    4. . 👁 Search for CData Connect AI
  4. Click Connect to authenticate to your Connect AI account.
    5. 👁 Click Connect to authenticate
  5. Click Sign in with CData Connect AI to add Connect AI to your ChatGPT account.
    6. 👁 Sign in with CData Connect AI
  6. After successful authorization, you will be redirected back to ChatGPT.
  7. Click Start Chat to start a new conversation in ChatGPT with Connect AI connected at the background.
    8. 👁 Start Chat

Step 3: Explore Live Snowflake Data with ChatGPT

  1. Start a new conversation in ChatGPT.
  2. Connect AI should ideally be automatically enabled in the chat. If not, navigate to -> More -> CData Connect AI, under the chatbox, to enable the connector from the dropdown
    3. 👁 Enable CData Connect AI in the chat
  3. You can now start exploring your data with natural language prompts. ChatGPT will use the Connect AI MCP server to query your live Snowflake data. Example prompts:
    • "Show me all customers from the last 30 days"
    • "What are my top performing products?"
    • "Analyze sales trends for this quarter"
    • "List all active projects and their current status"
    Refer to CData prompt library for more prompt ideas.
    4. 👁 Using natural language to explore your Snowflake data (Salesforce used here).
  4. Permit ChatGPT to access your Snowflake data. Click Query Data to continue, or Deny to refuse.
    5. 👁 Give permissions to ChatGPT.
  5. ChatGPT translates your natural language queries into SQL and execute them against your Snowflake data through the Connect AI MCP server.
    6. 👁 ChatGPT shows the desired results from your Snowflake data based on the prompts

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