# Start Snowflake warehouse

The **Start Snowflake warehouse** job entry resumes a Snowflake virtual warehouse from PDI.

You can use this entry with [Stop Snowflake warehouse](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/pdi-job-entries-reference-overview/stop-snowflake-warehouse) to limit warehouse runtime and reduce costs.

For more information about working with Snowflake in PDI, see [PDI and Snowflake](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/extracting-data-into-pdi/pdi-and-snowflake-cp).

For more information about using Snowflake, see the [Snowflake documentation](https://docs.snowflake.com/).

### General

* **Entry name**: Specify the unique name of the Start Snowflake warehouse entry on the canvas. You can customize the name or leave it as the default.

### Options

![Start Snowflake warehouse dialog box](https://773338310-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FYwnJ6Fexn4LZwKRHghPK%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-046c172b4deac590757390043dc27d426d53d846%2FPDI_StartSnowflakeWarehouse_Job.png?alt=media)

| Option                  | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| ----------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Database connection** | <p>Select an existing Snowflake connection. If you do not have an existing connection, click <strong>New</strong>. If you need to modify an existing connection, click <strong>Edit</strong>.</p><p><strong>Note:</strong> If timeout errors occur, see <a href="../data-integration-issues/snowflake-timeout-errors-general-issues-in-troubleshooting">Snowflake timeout errors</a>.</p> |
| **Warehouse**           | <p>Specify the Snowflake virtual warehouse to start by using one of the following methods:</p><ul><li><strong>Use default warehouse (defined in the database connection)</strong>: Resume the default warehouse defined by your database connection.</li><li><strong>Use an existing warehouse</strong>: Resume a warehouse that you specify.</li></ul>                                   |
| **Activity settings**   | <p>Select <strong>Fail if warehouse doesn’t exist</strong> if you want the job to fail when the warehouse does not exist (default).</p><p>Clear <strong>Fail if warehouse doesn’t exist</strong> if you want the job to continue and move to the next entry.</p>                                                                                                                          |


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