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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 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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Netherlands Open Map Data

Netherlands administrative boundaries and road network The data is organised across two themes. Administrative: This data set contains the polygons for Netherlands administrative boundaries at different levels. It includes the…
Uli Bethke May 18, 2023
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Planet Earth Open Map Data

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Uli Bethke May 15, 2023
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UK Open Map Data

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Airport Codes

Overview Sonra has published a data set for airport codes on the Snowflake marketplace. Airport codes are used to distinguish airports around the world to ensure that there is no…
Uli Bethke December 22, 2022
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Improving performance and reducing costs with Materialised Views on Snowflake

What are Materialised Views? Materialised Views are similar to Views. A View is a logical or virtual table representing the result of a query. Each time the View is queried…
Uli Bethke November 18, 2022
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Converting Duck Creek XML to a relational database

Duck Creek makes extensive use of XML. All Policy data is locked away in XML just to give one example. XML is a great format for exchanging data and for…
charlie October 18, 2022