Hello, we’re utilising Snowflake to connect Unity Gaming Services with Tableau Software through the Data Access feature. However, we would like to configure this link to only send the data that’s relevant to us. Currently, we’re sending all the data, including frequent automatic events such as gameRunning, which represents half of the events and we don’t need to store it in Snowflake! Do you have any suggestions on how we could filter out this data in order to not have to send it to Snowflake?
Thank you ! 
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I think this answer would be very useful as I am also connecting UGS to snowflake. May you shed light into how to not send the gameRunning events to snowflake?
Hi @yangjon1997 ,
Here is the answer of the Unity Support Team :
“The exporting of data isn’t something we have options to configure - it’s all or nothing I’m afraid.
I’m less familiar with Snowflake itself, but I believe that creating views that exclude the data that’s irrelevant to is a relatively normal ask within Snowflake.
As I understand the majority of cost comes from computation rather than storage but I’d be happy to take your experience back to the teams behind the features and services, to see what improvements we can make.
Feel free to share any additional details of what difficulties you’ve been finding in working with Snowflake, and I’ll see if there’s any advice we can share about how to achieve what it is you’re wanting to see.”
But I made some extra researches dans I found an article in which you can find this statement :
“With Secure Data Sharing, no actual data is copied or transferred between accounts. All sharing uses Snowflake’s services layer and metadata store. Shared data does not take up any storage in a consumer account and therefore does not contribute to the consumer’s monthly data storage charges. The only charges to consumers are for the compute resources (i.e. virtual warehouses) used to query the shared data.” (Link of the whole documentation : Introduction to Secure Data Sharing | Snowflake Documentation)
I understood that we aren’t actually storing the UGS data into Snowflake but we are using a virtual link between the two platforms since we are using the data sharing feature to link UGS to Snowflake.
I hope that helps
Have a nice day,
Mathilde
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