We’re excited to announce that Workspaces is now generally available in the Snowsight interface.

Workspaces brings a modern development experience to Snowflake, combining structured code organization, built-in Git integration, inline Snowflake Copilot (public preview), interactive charting and more — all in a single, powerful editing environment. Snowflake Workspaces improves developer productivity by providing a governed, file-based environment with native Git integration, which enables faster, AI-augmented coding and seamless team collaboration. With this feature, you can streamline workflows, ensure governed development and accelerate code delivery, making it a game changer for your data team.

With this release, Workspaces is now ready for production use across your teams and will upgrade the authoring experience in Snowflake Worksheets in your SQL workflows. You can now select it as the default experience for yourself and your organization.

Figure 1: A three-minute video showing you how to upgrade your SQL development by selecting Workspaces as your default Snowsight experience.

A unified, modern experience for SQL development

Workspaces is designed to support the full lifecycle of development in Snowflake — from quick ad hoc queries to structured, multifile projects. You can organize your work using nested folders and drag-and-drop files, and you may also convert existing worksheets into reusable SQL files.

The editor supports tabbed layouts and split panes, allowing you to compare code and results side by side. You can pin outputs, work across multiple tabs and take advantage of improved performance throughout the interface. Charting and column stats help you quickly understand your results, and Snowflake Copilot can generate, edit or explain queries directly in the editor.

Figure 2: Side-by-side editor brings the best of IDEs to the SQL authoring experience.

Built for productivity

Workspaces includes a number of productivity enhancements to help you move faster. 

The Inline Copilot (public preview) helps you write and edit queries with a better understanding of your data than ever before.

Figure 3: Inline copilot (Preview) makes writing queries much faster.

Column statistics and drill downs put exploratory data analysis (EDA) just a click away and let you quickly filter without needing to write more SQL.

Figure 4: Understand value distributions quickly with column statistics. 

Charting is built into the SQL editor, allowing you to create and interact with visualizations without leaving your query. The charting interface is intuitive, responsive and built to handle large data sets, helping you move from data to insight in seconds.

Figure 5: A quick, interactive look at the charting functionality built into the SQL editor.

Develop with Git-connected Workspaces

Figure 6: Create a Workspace from Git repository.

Workspaces supports direct integration with Git repositories, making it easier to incorporate version control into your SQL development workflow. You can create Git-synced Workspaces, connect to remote repositories, switch or create branches and push or pull changes all from within Snowsight.

If there are conflicts when pulling the latest changes, Workspaces provides a built-in visual difference viewer that helps you review and resolve them without leaving the UI. This enables a more streamlined and collaborative development process, especially for teams managing shared codebases.

Git integration is optional, but for users and teams already working with Git repositories, it offers a familiar and structured way to manage changes alongside Snowflake work.

Make Workspaces your default SQL editor

With Workspaces now generally available, users may want to make it their default SQL editing experience in Snowflake, replacing the legacy Snowflake Worksheets UI for day-to-day development. The default editor can be set at the account level by administrators or by individual users and can be reverted in one click. To access old SQL queries, legacy Worksheets can be opened and edited in the new Workspaces editor. That said, if users still require access to the legacy Worksheets UI in the near term, it is never more than two clicks away.

Figure 7: Set or revert Workspaces as your default SQL editor.

In the coming months, we will make Workspaces the default SQL editor for all accounts, replacing the Worksheets UI over time. Any changes to Worksheets access will be clearly communicated through release notes and notifications. In the meantime, we encourage users to set Workspaces as the default editor and provide feedback to help us address all of your SQL editing needs.

Getting started

Workspaces is available now to all users in Snowsight. A default Workspace (for instance, “My Workspace”) will be automatically provisioned when you visit Workspaces for the first time. For documentation, visit the Workspaces docs. If you have questions or feedback, reach out to your account team or use the feedback button directly from the Workspaces UI. We’re excited to see how you use Workspaces to develop and explore your data in Snowflake.