I’m starting a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share. It might be some SQL function that I’d really like to be in SQL Server, it might be something else. This blog post talks about the […]
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Speaking at DataGrillen 2019
I’m delighted to announce I’m selected to speak at the 2019 edition of SQLGrillen DataGrillen. This is a German conference with the catchy tagline “Data, beer und Bratwurst”. I will be talking about the cloud datawarehouse Snowflake (hosted on Azure). The abstract: The era of cloud data warehousing has finally begun. Gone are the days […]
Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 1: GENERATOR
I’m starting a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share. It might be some SQL function that I’d really like to be in SQL Server, it might be something else. In the first part: […]
Snowflake Database – First Impressions
At my recent project I’ve had the pleasure of working with Snowflake database (no, not the modelling technique) for the first time. Snowflake is a native cloud data warehouse, which means it is built for the cloud from the ground up. It’s not a conversion of an existing database or appliance into a cloud model; […]