Category Archives: SQL

Easy Fuzzy Match on Names in Tableau with SQL

Posted on 2020-07-14 by Frederic

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 →

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How to Import SFDC Recursive Hierarchies to Tableau

Posted on 2020-05-07 by Frederic

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 →

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Snowflake Summit 2019 Debrief

Posted on 2019-06-11 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 2019-04-11 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 2018-01-03 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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