@types/snowflake-sdk

What is @types/snowflake-sdk?

The @types/snowflake-sdk package provides TypeScript type definitions for the Snowflake SDK, which allows you to interact with Snowflake, a cloud-based data warehousing service. This package helps developers write TypeScript code that interacts with Snowflake by providing type safety and autocompletion features.

What are @types/snowflake-sdk's main functionalities?

Connecting to Snowflake

This feature allows you to establish a connection to a Snowflake data warehouse using the provided account credentials.

const snowflake = require('snowflake-sdk');
const connection = snowflake.createConnection({
  account: 'your_account',
  username: 'your_username',
  password: 'your_password'
});
connection.connect((err, conn) => {
  if (err) {
    console.error('Unable to connect: ' + err.message);
  } else {
    console.log('Successfully connected to Snowflake.');
  }
});

Executing Queries

This feature allows you to execute SQL queries against your Snowflake data warehouse and handle the results.

connection.execute({
  sqlText: 'SELECT * FROM your_table',
  complete: (err, stmt, rows) => {
    if (err) {
      console.error('Failed to execute statement due to the following error: ' + err.message);
    } else {
      console.log('Number of rows produced: ' + rows.length);
      console.log(rows);
    }
  }
});

Handling Multiple Statements

This feature allows you to execute multiple SQL statements in a single call, such as transactions.

connection.execute({
  sqlText: 'BEGIN TRANSACTION; INSERT INTO your_table VALUES (1, 'test'); COMMIT;',
  complete: (err, stmt, rows) => {
    if (err) {
      console.error('Failed to execute statement due to the following error: ' + err.message);
    } else {
      console.log('Transaction completed successfully.');
    }
  }
});

Other packages similar to @types/snowflake-sdk

pg

The pg package is a PostgreSQL client for Node.js. It allows you to interact with PostgreSQL databases, similar to how @types/snowflake-sdk allows you to interact with Snowflake. Both packages provide methods for connecting to the database, executing queries, and handling results.

mysql

The mysql package is a MySQL client for Node.js. It provides functionalities to connect to a MySQL database, execute queries, and manage transactions. Like @types/snowflake-sdk, it offers a way to interact with a specific type of database, but for MySQL instead of Snowflake.

mssql

The mssql package is a Microsoft SQL Server client for Node.js. It allows you to connect to SQL Server databases, execute queries, and handle results. This package is similar to @types/snowflake-sdk in that it provides database interaction capabilities, but it is specific to SQL Server.

README

Installation

npm install --save @types/snowflake-sdk

Summary

This package contains type definitions for snowflake-sdk (https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-nodejs#readme).

Details

Files were exported from https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/types/snowflake-sdk.

Additional Details

• Last updated: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 12:01:19 GMT
• Dependencies: @types/node
• Global values: none

Credits

These definitions were written by Hunter Tunnicliff, and Mauricio Rojas.