# Snowflake: dbt was unable to connect to the specified database.

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**Tags:** snowflake\
**Created:** [March 4, 2026, 11:46pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/snowflake-dbt-was-unable-to-connect-to-the-specified-database/20613 "2026-03-04T23:46:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![dizzy49](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discourse.getdbt.com/dizzy49/32/5155_2.png) [@dizzy49](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/dizzy49)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2026, 11:46pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/snowflake-dbt-was-unable-to-connect-to-the-specified-database/20613/1 "2026-03-04T23:46:22Z")

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I am trying to complete the Fundamentals learning, everything has been great except for this, which is very frustrating. (I changed the actual org/accounts slightly for privacy)

My snowflake URL is: [https://app.snowflake.com/utmtger/bsd82187/#/workspaces/ws…](https://app.snowflake.com/utmtger/bsd82187/#/workspaces/ws)

I am on AWS - US West, when I click my initials in the lower left it says “Account” then the AWS logo and BSD82187

When I click on the Account details it has:

Account Identifier: UTMTGER-BSD82187  
Data Sharing Account Identifier: UTMTGER.BSD82187  
Organization Name: UTMTGER  
Account Name: BSD82187

In my connection settings I put

Account: BSD82187  
Database: ANALYTICS (I created it in all lowercase, but in Snowflake it displays all caps, I’ve tried both ways)  
Warehouse: transforming

In Environment I have:

Correct User/Pass (I logged in and out of Snowflake 3x to be sure it’s correct)  
Schema: dbt\_shull  
Target Name: default

I get the following:

> check failed:
> 
> dbt was unable to connect to the specified database.
> 
> The database returned the following error:
> 
> > Database Error
> 
> 290404 (08001): 404 Not Found: post [BSD82187.snowflakecomputing.com:443/session/v1/login-request](http://BSD82187.snowflakecomputing.com:443/session/v1/login-request)

I would appreciate some help on what’s going on.

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**Author:** ![matej.novak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discourse.getdbt.com/matej.novak/32/6265_2.png) [@matej.novak](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/matej.novak)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 7:26am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/snowflake-dbt-was-unable-to-connect-to-the-specified-database/20613/2 "2026-03-05T07:26:03Z")

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The account in connection/profiles.yml needs to be the account identifier.

account: umtger-bsd82187

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**Author:** ![EdgarM123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discourse.getdbt.com/edgarm123/32/5694_2.png) [@EdgarM123](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/EdgarM123)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 12:33pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/snowflake-dbt-was-unable-to-connect-to-the-specified-database/20613/3 "2026-03-06T12:33:07Z")

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Hey dizzy, did you get this resolved? Like Matej said, make sure the account identifier is correct. I think an issue I ran into before was that it was using the wrong profile from the profiles.yml file. You can try passing the correct profile using the command line argument (with 2 dashes) –profile=profile\_name

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**Author:** ![dizzy49](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discourse.getdbt.com/dizzy49/32/5155_2.png) [@dizzy49](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/dizzy49)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/snowflake-dbt-was-unable-to-connect-to-the-specified-database/20613/4 "2026-03-06T16:58:32Z")

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Yes, that was it.

The video, and the link to check for what to use was extremely confusing.

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/getdbt/original/1X/a7a7ca1fe379aaf90952b0e13118a817babcd14f.png) [@system](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/snowflake-dbt-was-unable-to-connect-to-the-specified-database/20613/5 "2026-03-13T16:58:55Z")

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