What privileges are required to create a task?

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Ronald Buffing · Accepted Answer

The role must have access to the target schema and the create task privilege on the schema itself.

Ronald Buffing · Answer

The global privilege create task is required to create a new task.

Ronald Buffing · Answer

Tasks are created at the Application level and can only be created by the Account Admin role.

Ronald Buffing · Answer

Many Snowflake DDLs are metadata operations only, and create task DDL can be executed without virtual warehouse requirement or task specific grants.

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