Category Archives: SQL

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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How to filter transactions by a calculated category using SQL Window Functions

Posted on 3 January, 2018 by Frederic

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you need to filter a set of transactions based on categories which need to be calculated from that same set? Let’s say you have a data set containing all the customer … Continue reading →

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How to Load Data in Bulk to Snowflake with Alteryx

Posted on 31 October, 2017 by Frederic

Why a post about Snowflake? What does Alteryx and Tableau have to do with Snowflake? Here is some context: as I was planning to launch my Data Lake consulting business, which is now launched, I was looking for a place … Continue reading →

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10 Tricks to adopt Redshift In-DB

Posted on 1 December, 2016 by Frederic

If you are still manipulating data in Excel, why should you care about In-DB and Redshift? Whether you are accessing your Redshift data through Alteryx or through Tableau, knowing how to prepare your data within Redshift, with In-DB tool in … Continue reading →

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