# Snowflake timeout errors

When you are pooling the Pentaho database connection, you may see errors. Snowflake JDBC connections use a default timeout of four hours which contributes to these errors because the same connection can be reused for more than four hours. See the [Snowflake documentation](https://docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html) for further details.

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