When I try to establish connection to Snowflake server in Navicat, I get an error message saying Snowflake ODBC Driver is required. What is that and what should I do?
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Snowflake ODBC Driver is required for connecting to Snowflake database.
For Windows and macOS platforms, it is only required to install the driver and start to use without extra configurations.
For Linux platform, it is required to follow the Snowflake official guidelines and configure the environment for ODBC connections to run properly.
Windows
Installation Instructions
- Download and install the Windows platform ODBC driver (https://developers.snowflake.com/odbc/)
- Restart Navicat
macOS
Installation Instructions
- Download and install the macOS platform ODBC driver (https://developers.snowflake.com/odbc/)
- Restart Navicat
Linux
Installation Instructions
- Go to https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/odbc/odbc-linux
- Follow to install unixODBC (https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/odbc/odbc-linux#unixodbc)
- Follow to install ODBC driver (https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/odbc/odbc-linux#step-install-the-odbc-driver)
- Follow to configure with unixODBC (https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/odbc/odbc-linux#configuring-with-unixodbc)
- Verify the 'odbcinst.ini' in step 4. contains the 'SnowflakeDSIIDriver' entry. Navicat relies on that entry to load the driver.
- 'odbc.ini' and Testing step in the guideline is not necessary.
- Restart Navicat
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