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Category Archives: SQL
Cross Tab and Transpose INDB with Snowflake using Pivot and Unpivot
Data for analytics can be structured in two different ways: Wide or Long. Here is an illustration of the two types of format for the same data set: When would you use one vs. the other? In general, wide models … Continue reading
Customer Cohorts and Product Sequence with orders data
Whether you work in B2B or B2C, getting a better understanding of customer or account transactions in sequence is core. Customer cohorts will show you how well you are doing acquiring new customers, but also do they conduct repeat business … Continue reading
Easy Fuzzy Match on Names in Tableau with SQL
Finding duplicate entities at scale in large databases using only names coming from free text boxes is always a challenge in Marketing, common in B2C, often ignored in B2B. Let’s take a simple scenario: I have a very long list … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Performance, Snowflake, SQL, Tableau, Uncategorized
Tagged fuzzy logic
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How to Import SFDC Recursive Hierarchies to Tableau
If you have dealt with hierarchies from Salesforce (SFDC), or from most normalized transactional systems, you have faced some challenges to use those hierarchies in Tableau. Those systems treat hierarchies as a recursive model, storing Parent to Child relationships in … Continue reading
Posted in Alteryx, Automation, Marketing, Sales, SFDC, SQL, Tableau, Uncategorized
Tagged hierarchy, SFDC
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Snowflake Summit 2019 Debrief
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…
Posted in Alteryx, Automation, Performance, Snowflake, SQL, Tableau, Uncategorized
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