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Step 1: Prepare Your Snowflake Data

Organize your Snowflake tables to match the Parent Segment data model: one Customers table and one or more Behaviors tables.

Customers Table

The Customers table is the single source of all profile data and attributes. Every column you want to use for segmentation must be in this table.

RequirementDescription
Unique key columnA column with unique values per customer (e.g., cdp_customer_id)
No duplicate keysEach row must represent a unique customer profile
All attributesAll customer properties for segmentation must be columns in this table

Example Customers Table

cdp_customer_idemailfirst_namelast_namecitycountrygendermembership_tierltvaovnext_best_channelnext_best_offer
001alice@example.comAliceSmithTokyoJPFGold5000120emaildiscount_20
002bob@example.comBobJonesOsakaJPMSilver250080pushfree_shipping

Behaviors Tables

Each Behaviors table represents a specific type of customer activity. You can define multiple Behaviors tables (e.g., page views, purchases, email clicks).

RequirementDescription
Key columnMust contain a column with the same customer identifier used in the Customers table (e.g., cdp_customer_id) to join the two tables
Time columnTimestamp column for the event (e.g., time)
Event columnsAdditional columns describing the event details

Example Behaviors Table

cdp_customer_idtimetd_urltd_title
0012025-11-20 10:30:00https://example.com/productsProducts Page
0012025-11-20 11:00:00https://example.com/cartShopping Cart
0022025-11-20 12:15:00https://example.com/saleSale Page

Snowflake Permissions

To ensure the Parent Segment can access your Snowflake data, grant the following permissions to the Snowflake user account you will specify when creating the connection in Treasure Data:

-- Grant usage on the warehouse, database, and schema
GRANT USAGE ON WAREHOUSE <warehouse_name> TO ROLE <role_name>;
GRANT USAGE ON DATABASE <database_name> TO ROLE <role_name>;
GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA <database_name>.<schema_name> TO ROLE <role_name>;

-- Grant SELECT on the Customers table
GRANT SELECT ON TABLE <database_name>.<schema_name>.customers TO ROLE <role_name>;

-- Grant SELECT on each Behaviors table
GRANT SELECT ON TABLE <database_name>.<schema_name>.behavior_pageviews TO ROLE <role_name>;
-- Repeat for each Behaviors table

-- Grant CREATE TABLE on the schema to create and clean up temporary tables during activation
GRANT CREATE TABLE ON SCHEMA <database_name>.<schema_name> TO ROLE <role_name>;

Whitelist Treasure Data IP Addresses

To allow Treasure Data to communicate with your Snowflake instance, you must whitelist their rotating IP addresses in your Snowflake Network Policy:

ALTER NETWORK POLICY <policy_name> SET ALLOWED_IP_LIST = ('<TD_IP_1>', '<TD_IP_2>');

See Static IP Addresses for Integrations and Result Workers for the most current list based on your specific region. Please whitelist both the Import and Export tabs.