Top Articles

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

Recent Articles

All Data Marketplace Flexter FlowHigh JSON Snowflake XML
Data Warehousing Books,

Data Modelling books for the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)

In other parts of this series we have had a look at data warehousing books that cover the design and architecture of a business intelligence solution. I have also covered data warehousing books…
Uli Bethke September 1, 2010
Data Warehouse,

Comparing Exadata and Netezza TwinFin

Comparison between Exadata and Netezza Twin Fin. Ok, it comes from Netezza and as such is biased, but still an interesting read. It is worthwhile to remember though that Exadata…
Uli Bethke August 13, 2010
Irish BI SIG,

OBIEE 11G: 9 September

No it's not the fecking release date :-). It's just the next date for the Irish BI SIG to meet. This time round the focus will be on OBIEE and…
Uli Bethke August 13, 2010
OBIEE,

Utilizing Help Files in OBIEE

Hi all, my name is Helena Bennett and I am currently working in the BI space as a Business Analyst, I came across help files recently and thought I would…
Uli Bethke August 11, 2010
OBIEE,

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) web services (SOAP client via ODIInvokewebservice) and the OBIEE web services API.

Get our e-books Discover the Oracle Data Integrator 11g Repository Data Model and Oracle Data Integrator Snippets and Recipes As outlined in a previous post ODI has a built in SOAP client via the ODIInvokewebservice…
Uli Bethke July 31, 2010
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI),

Oracle Data Integrator: ODIInvokeWebService and Java 6

Get our e-books Discover the Oracle Data Integrator 11g Repository Data Model and Oracle Data Integrator Snippets and Recipes ODI has a built in SOAP client, the ODIInvokeWebService tool. However,…
Uli Bethke July 16, 2010