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BigQuery, XML,

ecobee chooses Flexter to make valuable IoT data in XML accessible to BigQuery users for analytics

The challenge A world leader in smart home devices that introduced the world’s first smart thermostat, ecobee has expanded rapidly in the last decade. Naturally, with company growth has come…
Uli Bethke October 5, 2020
BigQuery,

SQL on Hadoop, BigQuery, or Exadata. Please don’t call them MPP.

I often hear people referring to SQL engines running against HDFS or object storage as MPP. Strictly speaking this is incorrect. Let me first explain what an MPP database is…
Uli Bethke May 10, 2018
BigQuery,

Convert FpML XML to BigQuery

About this walk-through In this walk-through we will load XML files processed by Flexter into BigQuery. Flexter is a powerful XML parsing tool that can convert complex XML files into…
Anvesh Gali July 31, 2017