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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 (2025)

“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,

Detect Bad SQL with Static & Dynamic Code Analysis – A Guide

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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Converting and Masking Connexo XML to a database (MySQL)

In this post we will show you how obfuscate XML data and convert it to a tabular format. We will use XML documents from Connexo NetSense and convert it to…
Maciek August 13, 2019
XML, flexter,

Masking and converting Guidewire XML to a database (Oracle)

In this post we will guide you through the process of masking Guidewire XML data and converting it to Oracle. This process normally take days or weeks. With our solution…
Maciek August 8, 2019
XML, flexter,

Masking Sabre XML and converting to a database (Snowflake)

In this post we will show you how to use Flexter, Sonra’s data warehouse automation solution for complex XML and JSON documents. We will use Flexter in combination with Paranoid,…
Maciek May 28, 2019
Data Warehouse,

Data warehouse automation explained. Benefits and use cases

What is data warehouse automation? I have been struggling to find a good article or post that explains data warehouse automation. To address this gap I have decide to write…
Uli Bethke May 13, 2019
JSON, JSON,

Working with JSON in Redshift. Options, limitations, and alternatives

Redshift offers limited support to work with JSON documents. We have three options to load JSON data into Redshift. We can convert JSON to a relational model when loading the…
Uli Bethke April 24, 2019
XML,

Paranoid? Masking, anonymizing, and obfuscating PII in XML and JSON data

Data masking, anonymization, and obfuscation are methods to scramble personally identifiable information (PII). We can apply different techniques to mask data, e.g. you may substitute values (swap na for another)…
Maciek April 1, 2019