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SQL Challenges,

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 you to demonstrate your understanding of islands in a time series data set. Whoever submits the correct and most performant query will be featured in …
Uli Bethke November 7, 2023
Flexter,

Deep dive on XML converters, XML conversion tools and XML conversion projects

Are you looking for an XML converter or XML conversion tool for enterprise use cases? Are you looking for advice and tips and tricks for an XML conversion project? If…
charlie 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
FlowHigh,

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
FlowHigh, FlowHigh,

From Code to Clarity: Visualizing SQL code for Documentation and Debugging

In this post we will show you how you can create a visual diagram of your SQL code. We will use the FlowHigh SQL visualiser to achieve this. FlowHigh is…
Uli Bethke May 29, 2023

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Snowflake, Snowflake,

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
Snowflake, Snowflake, XML,

Video: Converting FpML XML to Snowflake

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Uli Bethke October 23, 2020
Data Marketplace, Data Marketplace,

UK Census Data

Each table provides information about a single census topic like sex, dwellings, hours worked etc. Data present in the table is at the census ward level. Electoral Wards are key…
Uli Bethke October 13, 2020
BigQuery, XML,

ecobee chooses Flexter to make valuable IoT data in XML accessible to BigQuery users for analytics

The challenge A world leader in smart home devices that introduced the world’s first smart thermostat, ecobee has expanded rapidly in the last decade. Naturally, with company growth has come…
Uli Bethke October 5, 2020
Snowflake, Snowflake,

Snowflake Data Marketplace: UK Administrative Boundaries  

Overview We have published administrative boundary data for the UK on the Snowflake data marketplace.In this blog post we document what you need to know about the data including the…
Uli Bethke September 15, 2020
Oracle, XML,

Converting XML documents from an Oracle CLOB to a relational format

In this post we will show you how easy it is to convert XML data from Oracle CLOB to a relational format. We will be using Enterprise Flexter which ships…
Uli Bethke August 31, 2020