# Getting started with Secure Data Share (SDS)

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**Created:** [March 25, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/getting-started-with-secure-data-share-sds/37545 "2024-03-25T13:36:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![colin\_mckibben](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/sailpoint/discuss/user_avatar/developer.sailpoint.com/colin_mckibben/32/37182_2.png) [@colin\_mckibben](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/colin_mckibben)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/getting-started-with-secure-data-share-sds/37545/1 "2024-03-25T13:36:34Z")

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[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sailpoint/original/2X/d/d428499c67e1e8ca20db43f1470f7bb77a373f8e.jpeg "Getting started with Secure Data Share (SDS)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-XZtjuv6XY)

# Description

Organizations want to use identity data in Business Intelligence, Reporting, and Auditing software. Getting this data in a consumable and understandable format can be challenging. SailPoint’s Secure Data Share, or SDS, makes it easy to access your Identity Security Cloud data from Snowflake. SailPoint’s advocacy lead, Colin McKibben, will show you everything you need to know to get started.

## Additional Resources

Here is the topic I created that explains the duplicate accounts query that I demonstrated in my presentation.

> [@Using Secure Data Share to find users with more than one account on a source](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/using-secure-data-share-to-find-users-with-more-than-one-account-on-a-source/36581):
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> Before [Secure Data Share (SDS)](https://developer.sailpoint.com/docs/reporting/secure-data-share), the primary way to search your identity data was to use the [SailPoint search interface](https://documentation.sailpoint.com/saas/help/search/index.html). Search uses Elastic Search Query Language, which is not a common language and has several limitations. For example, to [find users with more than one account on a source](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/get-users-with-more-than-one-account-in-the-same-source/338), you had to run a search query using the [v3 search aggregation](https://developer.sailpoint.com/docs/api/v3/search-aggregate/) endpoint. The query looks like this: { "query": { "query": "\*" }, "indices": ["identities"], "aggregationsDsl": { "accounts": { "ne…