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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,

XML Converters & Conversion – Ultimate Guide (2024)

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…
abbi 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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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
Data Warehouse, XML,

Converting Covid XML and JSON to Yellowbrick

 Sonra has recently certified Flexter against Yellowbrick.In this blog post we show you how Flexter and Yellowbrick work together to easily convert and query data that is locked away in…
Uli Bethke July 23, 2020
Snowflake, Snowflake,

Snowflake Snowsight: 7 refreshing features

Overview: With the acquisition of Numeracy in March 2019, Snowflake took a step towards enhancing the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform web user experience. This is in the form of a…
Dan Galavan July 16, 2020
Data Warehouse, XML,

Yellowbrick and Sonra Partner to Modernize Data Warehouses by Making XML and JSON Data Conversion Faster and Easier

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 8, 2020 – Hybrid cloud data warehouse company Yellowbrick Data today announced that Sonra has joined the company’s partner program. Both Yellowbrick and Sonra power huge…
Vadim Mytarev July 9, 2020
Snowflake, Snowflake,

Querying hierarchical data in Snowflake

Overview Having the right tools for the job makes the life of a data engineer a lot easier. It is also more fun to work with a platform that has…
Uli Bethke July 4, 2020
Snowflake, Snowflake,

Medvault Success Story – Primary Healthcare Analytics on the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform

Overview: MedVault, an organization offering data management services in primary healthcare, identified the need for a platform which would help their clients to really unlock the value of their data.…
Dan Galavan June 29, 2020