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Change Automation Reference

useWarehouse

Last updated: August 12, 2026

Sets the active warehouse for the current Snowflake session. This allows you to control which warehouse executes subsequent operations within a changeset.

Note: This change type does not support automatic rollback. Session state is transient.

Available attributes

Attribute	Type	Description	Required
`warehouseName`	String	Name of the warehouse to use for this session	Yes

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<databaseChangeLog
        xmlns="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog"
        xmlns:pro-snowflake="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro-snowflake"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-latest.xsd
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro-snowflake
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro-snowflake/liquibase-pro-snowflake-latest.xsd">

    <!-- Create warehouse - session switches to NEW_WH -->
    <changeSet id="create-warehouse" author="examples">
        <pro-snowflake:createWarehouse warehouseName="NEW_WH" ifNotExists="true"/>
    </changeSet>

    <!-- Restore session to standard warehouse -->
    <changeSet id="restore-context" author="examples">
        <pro-snowflake:useWarehouse warehouseName="STANDARD_WH"/>
    </changeSet>

</databaseChangeLog>

{
  "databaseChangeLog": [
    {
      "changeSet": {
        "id": "create-warehouse",
        "author": "examples",
        "changes": [
          {
            "createWarehouse": {
              "warehouseName": "NEW_WH",
              "ifNotExists": true
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "changeSet": {
        "id": "restore-context",
        "author": "examples",
        "changes": [
          {
            "useWarehouse": {
              "warehouseName": "STANDARD_WH"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

databaseChangeLog:
  # Create warehouse - session switches to NEW_WH
  - changeSet:
      id: create-warehouse
      author: examples
      changes:
        - createWarehouse:
            warehouseName: NEW_WH
            ifNotExists: true

  # Restore session to standard warehouse
  - changeSet:
      id: restore-context
      author: examples
      changes:
        - useWarehouse:
            warehouseName: STANDARD_WH

--liquibase formatted sql

--changeset examples:usewarehouse-1
USE WAREHOUSE STANDARD_WH;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<databaseChangeLog
        xmlns="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog"
        xmlns:pro-snowflake="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro-snowflake"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-latest.xsd
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro-snowflake
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro-snowflake/liquibase-pro-snowflake-latest.xsd">

    <!-- Create warehouse - session switches to NEW_WH -->
    <changeSet id="create-warehouse" author="examples">
        <pro-snowflake:createWarehouse warehouseName="NEW_WH" ifNotExists="true"/>
    </changeSet>

    <!-- Restore session to standard warehouse -->
    <changeSet id="restore-context" author="examples">
        <pro-snowflake:useWarehouse warehouseName="STANDARD_WH"/>
    </changeSet>

</databaseChangeLog>

{
  "databaseChangeLog": [
    {
      "changeSet": {
        "id": "create-warehouse",
        "author": "examples",
        "changes": [
          {
            "createWarehouse": {
              "warehouseName": "NEW_WH",
              "ifNotExists": true
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "changeSet": {
        "id": "restore-context",
        "author": "examples",
        "changes": [
          {
            "useWarehouse": {
              "warehouseName": "STANDARD_WH"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

databaseChangeLog:
  # Create warehouse - session switches to NEW_WH
  - changeSet:
      id: create-warehouse
      author: examples
      changes:
        - createWarehouse:
            warehouseName: NEW_WH
            ifNotExists: true

  # Restore session to standard warehouse
  - changeSet:
      id: restore-context
      author: examples
      changes:
        - useWarehouse:
            warehouseName: STANDARD_WH

--liquibase formatted sql

--changeset examples:usewarehouse-1
USE WAREHOUSE STANDARD_WH;

Important considerations

- Session state only affects the current Liquibase execution

- Each changeset starts with the session warehouse context from the previous changeset

- Changes are not persistent across Liquibase runs

- Not captured in database snapshots (diff/generate-changelog)

- Use useWarehouse instead of raw <sql>USE WAREHOUSE ...</sql> tags for governance

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Important considerations