Having problems connecting to snowflake from Pentaho? Any suggestions?

First you want to make sure that the Pentaho version is the 6.1 version or above.

Next, these steps will help you create the JDBC connection to Snowflake through Pentaho:

1. You will need to download the Snowflake JDBC driver to the workstation while at the same time running Pentaho
2. Then you will copy Snowflake_jdcb.jar to the Pentaho folder:

-On Windows this will be: C:\ProgramFiles\pentaho\design-tools\data-integration\lib
-On Mac OS this will be: …/pentaho/design-tools/data-integration/lib

3. Lastly, you will configure a Generic Database connection within Pentaho through:
Url: jdbc:snowflake://.snowflakecomputing.com:443/
Driver Class Name: net.snowflake.client.jdbc.SnowflakeDriver