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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

1. Download and install the Windows platform ODBC driver (https://developers.snowflake.com/odbc/)
2. Restart Navicat

macOS

Installation Instructions

1. Download and install the macOS platform ODBC driver (https://developers.snowflake.com/odbc/)
2. Restart Navicat

Linux

Installation Instructions

1. Go to https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/odbc/odbc-linux
2. Follow to install unixODBC (https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/odbc/odbc-linux#unixodbc)
3. Follow to install ODBC driver (https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/odbc/odbc-linux#step-install-the-odbc-driver)
4. Follow to configure with unixODBC (https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/odbc/odbc-linux#configuring-with-unixodbc)
5. Verify the 'odbcinst.ini' in step 4. contains the 'SnowflakeDSIIDriver' entry. Navicat relies on that entry to load the driver.
6. 'odbc.ini' and Testing step in the guideline is not necessary.
7. Restart Navicat