diff --git a/docs/pages/product/configuration/data-sources/snowflake.mdx b/docs/pages/product/configuration/data-sources/snowflake.mdx
index 47c716af545d5..d0156397ccb36 100644
--- a/docs/pages/product/configuration/data-sources/snowflake.mdx
+++ b/docs/pages/product/configuration/data-sources/snowflake.mdx
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ redirect_from:
 - [The region][snowflake-docs-regions] for the [Snowflake][snowflake] warehouse
 - The username/password for the [Snowflake][snowflake] account
 
+## Snowflake quoted identifiers 
+
+Due to an issue in snowflakes opinion about quoted identifers we set a session value to override 
+snowflake defaults for users that have set an account value for: QUOTED_IDENTIFIERS_IGNORE_CASE
+you can learn more about this here: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/identifiers-syntax#double-quoted-identifiers
+
 ## Setup
 
 <WarningBox>
diff --git a/packages/cubejs-snowflake-driver/src/SnowflakeDriver.ts b/packages/cubejs-snowflake-driver/src/SnowflakeDriver.ts
index ccf19191fa980..7ec0f2e900e65 100644
--- a/packages/cubejs-snowflake-driver/src/SnowflakeDriver.ts
+++ b/packages/cubejs-snowflake-driver/src/SnowflakeDriver.ts
@@ -450,7 +450,14 @@ export class SnowflakeDriver extends BaseDriver implements DriverInterface {
 
       await this.execute(connection, 'ALTER SESSION SET TIMEZONE = \'UTC\'', [], false);
       await this.execute(connection, `ALTER SESSION SET STATEMENT_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS = ${this.config.executionTimeout}`, [], false);
-
+      /**
+       * Because snowflake has an opinion about the shape of data returns over the api.
+       * we have to set this value to false in order for our schema requests to succeed.
+       *
+       * You can learn more here.
+       * https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/identifiers-syntax#double-quoted-identifiers
+       */
+      await this.execute(connection, 'ALTER SESSION SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIERS_IGNORE_CASE = FALSE', [], false);
       return connection;
     } catch (e) {
       this.connection = null;