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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 …
Kristijan Berta November 3, 2024
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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…
Kristijan Berta 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…
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…
Kristijan Berta September 13, 2023
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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…
Kristijan Berta September 8, 2023

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Mastering SQL: How to detect and avoid 34+ Common SQL Antipatterns

Overview Are you looking for reasons why your SQL queries are slow or costly. Look no more. This blog post showcases a comprehensive list of 34 SQL antipatterns. Use it…
Kristijan Berta December 6, 2023
Snowflake,

Benchmarking Snowflake Native Apps

As a long time user of Snowflake we are impressed with the near unlimited scalability of the Snowflake Data Cloud. We were wondering if the same scalability and performance magic…
Kristijan Berta November 20, 2023
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…
Kristijan Berta November 7, 2023
SQL Parser,

Deep dive on SQL parsing on Teradata

This is the sixth article in our series on parsing SQL in different database technologies and SQL dialects. We explored SQL parsing on Snowflake, MS SQL Server, Oracle , Databricks…
Kristijan Berta October 19, 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…
abbi October 4, 2023
SQL Parser,

AWS Athena SQL parser for table and column audit logging

This is the sixth article in our series on parsing SQL in different database technologies and SQL dialects. We explored SQL parsing on Snowflake, MS SQL Server, Oracle , Databricks…
Kristijan Berta September 29, 2023