Snowflake SnowPro Advanced: Administrator ADA-C01 Question # 12 Topic 2 Discussion

According to the Snowflake documentation1, database replication across accounts within the same organization requires the following steps:

•Link the accounts in the organization using the ORGADMIN role.

•Enable account database replication for both the source and target accounts using the SYSTEM$GLOBAL_ACCOUNT_SET_PARAMETER function.

•Promote a local database to serve as the primary database and enable replication to the target accounts using the ALTER DATABASE … ENABLE REPLICATION TO ACCOUNTS command.

•Create a secondary database in the target account using the CREATE DATABASE … FROM SHARE command.

•Refresh the secondary database periodically using the ALTER DATABASE … REFRESH command.

Option A is incorrect because it does not include the step of creating a secondary database in the target account. Option C is incorrect because replicating databases across accounts within the same organization is not enabled by default, but requires enabling account database replication for both the source and target accounts. Option D is incorrect because it is possible to replicate a database from an Enterprise edition Snowflake account to a Standard edition Snowflake account, as long as the IGNORE EDITION CHECK option is used in the ALTER DATABASE … ENABLE REPLICATION TO ACCOUNTS command2. Option B is correct because it includes all the necessary configuration steps in ACCOUNT1, except for creating a secondary database in ACCOUNT2, which can be done after the replication is enabled.