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Data Lineage,

SQL Visualisation Guide – Query Diagrams, Lineage & ERD

Have you ever inherited the SQL codebase from someone else where it is in a “bit of a mess”? 😁 Sound familiar? Most data engineers and SQL developers have been there including myself—staring at a spaghetti-like web of queries, trying to untangle a chaotic SQL codebase. It’s a common nightmare. Traditionally, you had to fight …
Uli Bethke November 3, 2024
SQL,

SQL Challenge: Tackling the Island Problem in Time Series Data

Jump into our SQL Challenge! Today, we're exploring customer loyalty trends. Are you prepared to show off your SQL skills? About the quiz In this SQL pop quiz, we're challenging…
Uli Bethke November 7, 2023
XML,

XML Converters & Conversion – Ultimate Guide (2024)

“Urgent XML Conversion Project – Need by End of Week”. “Just Convert this XML to SQL Tables. Should be Simple!” Sound familiar?  From my experience, XML conversion projects follow the…
Maciek October 4, 2023
Snowflake,

7 guardrails against common mistakes that inflate Snowflake credit usage 

Dodge costly pitfalls Snowflake implementation has pioneered dozens of innovations in the data platform space. The long list includes separation of compute and storage, physical workload separation, data sharing, data…
Uli Bethke September 13, 2023
SQL,

Automatically detect bad SQL. Static and dynamic analysis of SQL code

Preventing Query Catastrophe with FlowHigh SQL Analyser Does the following sound familiar? As the wizard EsQuEl delved deep into the SQL code, he stumbled upon multiple instances where tables were…
Uli Bethke September 8, 2023

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The 6 Factors You Need to Get Right to Make Your XML Conversion Project a Success

A successful XML conversion project makes data: Intelligible Readable, and Analysable Achieve that and decisions can be made quickly on accurate and reliable data. Unfortunately, many projects fail because of…
Maciek February 18, 2021
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Guide to Geography Dimension on the Snowflake Marketplace

We’ve published a universal Geography Dimension on the Snowflake Data Marketplace! This dataset makes it easy to enhance your in-house data with detailed location information. Whether you’re performing location lookups…
Uli Bethke February 3, 2021
XML,

The Secrets to Unlocking XML Data in an Optimised Format for Downstream Users

All the data in the world is not worth much unless you can use it.That means it must be intelligible, readable, and analysable.Organisations spend huge resources on data warehousing projects…
Maciek January 22, 2021
Snowflake, Snowflake,

Reverse Geocoding on Snowflake

In this blog post we will show how you can use OpenStreetMap data from the Snowflake data marketplace and the geospatial feature in the Snowflake data platform to reverse geocode…
Uli Bethke December 24, 2020
Snowflake, Data Marketplace, Snowflake,

The Data Marketplace. A missing piece in modern data architecture

What is a Data Marketplace? Data Marketplaces are a relatively recent phenomenon in data management. They bring together providers and buyers of data. Organisations were able to buy data from…
Uli Bethke December 16, 2020
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Location analytics and geospatial data on Snowflake

What is Geospatial / GIS data? Geospatial data and location analytics Geospatial Data can be defined as data with a geographic component, e.g. Address, ZipCode, latitude / longitude etc. These…
Uli Bethke December 9, 2020