Category Archives: Snowflake

Snowflake Summit 2019 Debrief

Posted on 11 June, 2019 by Frederic

I was very excited at the thought of attending the first edition of the Snowflake customer event In San Francisco last week, and the event did deliver…

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Alteryx INDB Traps and Limitations Series: Filtering Nulls

Posted on 11 April, 2019 by Frederic

I get to spend a lot of quality time with INDB tools, which represent 90% of my workflows. I love them, I can generate code almost at the speed of thoughts. They are fast to put together but also very … Continue reading →

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TC18 Tableau Conference Highlights

Posted on 4 November, 2018 by Frederic

I skipped the Tableau conference last year as it was taking place in Vegas, and that is usually not a good experience, even without crowd shooters. I was happy to partake again this year to TC18, which took place in … Continue reading →

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Faster field name edits in Alteryx

Posted on 15 October, 2018 by Frederic

From a distance, editing field names might not seem such a big issue, worth dedicating a blog post. Yet, I realize how much experience I gained over time, dealing with such minor issues, which end up affecting my productivity significantly … Continue reading →

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Weird query results on Snowflake

Posted on 22 August, 2018 by Frederic

If, when you use Tableau or Alteryx to query a Snowflake Database, you are getting weird $ amounts, not matching what is the database, you are experiencing a known bug in the recent versions of the Snowflake ODBC driver: https://support.snowflake.net/s/article/Regression-in-ODBC-v2-16-4-v-2 … Continue reading →

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