Tag Archives: Snowflake

New SQL tool for Analysts on Snowflake: Datameer

Posted on 2022-01-05 by Frederic

Over the years, I have been monitoring the analytics software market with a quite simple requirement: I am (still) looking for a tool to let me generate full data pipelines quickly from a browser with the least amount of code. … Continue reading →

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How to build a history table with Snowflake and Fivetran

Posted on 2021-03-30 by Frederic

What I mean by history table is what is commonly called a Slowly Changing Dimension, or SCD table of type 2, which retains efficiently all the previous values I decide to track, for accurate historical reports. Why do we care … Continue reading →

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Cross Tab and Transpose INDB with Snowflake using Pivot and Unpivot

Posted on 2020-10-26 by Frederic

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 →

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Weird query results on Snowflake

Posted on 2018-08-22 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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How to Load Data in Bulk to Snowflake with Alteryx

Posted on 2017-10-31 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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