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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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Converting XML and JSON to a Data Lake

Data lakes are a popular design pattern in data analytics. A data lake is used to store a copy of data coming from operational source systems such as relational databases.…
Uli Bethke September 30, 2021
XML, XML,

Converting SDMX XML to BigQuery

If our data is in Avro, JSON, Parquet, etc. then you can load it easily to BigQuery. Got XML for BigQuery? BigQuery does not provide any native support to deal…
Uli Bethke June 22, 2021
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Snowflake vs. Redshift – Support for Handling JSON

ANSI SQL 2016 introduced support for querying JSON data directly from SQL. This is a common use case nowadays. JSON is everywhere in web based applications, IOT, NoSQL databases, and…
Uli Bethke June 22, 2021
Data Warehouse, Snowflake,

Using Virtual Data Marts the right way

Virtual data marts can be a useful design pattern but there are a few things you should know before you use them. Virtual data marts are logical views dimensionally modelled…
Uli Bethke May 26, 2021
Snowflake, Snowflake, XML,

Converting XML to Snowflake Vs. Redshift, BigQuery, Azure Synapse (Guide)

With the growth of data, variety in data formats, and cloud computing, there's an increased need for storing and analysing the rising volume of semi-structured data. The data originating from…
abbi May 24, 2021
Data Marketplace, Data Marketplace,

Location analytics on Snowflake with OpenStreetMap, US property data, and our ready made Geography Dimension

We have made available a ready made Geography Dimension on the Snowflake Data Marketplace. The marketplace is one of the components of the Snowflake Data Cloud. It covers the first to…
Uli Bethke February 19, 2021