by DeeDee Walsh, on Jan 15, 2024, 12:30:00 AM

Ever wondered how the new .NET 8 can play nicely with Snowflake* (arguably the cool kid on the data warehousing block)? Good news! Today we're diving into the world of …

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Topics:.NETSnowflake.NET 8

by DeeDee Walsh, on Jul 24, 2023, 5:41:09 PM

Remember 10 years ago when cloud computing was revolutionary and kind of scary? We all had lots of "can the cloud be trusted" discussions. Now it's a given that every …

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Topics:AzurecloudSnowflakeaws

by Brandon Carver, on Nov 15, 2022, 10:08:14 PM

Note: SnowConvert is now available directly from Snowflake. Learn more by visiting the documentation for both SnowConvert and the Snowpark Migration Accelerator (SMA). Last week, Snowflake announced that their support …

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Topics:SnowflakePythonsnowparkpyspark

by John Browne, on Oct 24, 2022, 8:38:34 AM

Spark is a big deal in big data and so is Snowflake, but what if you want to run your Spark SQL queries with a prebuilt connection to a Snowflake …

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Topics:SnowflakesnowparkApache Spark

by Marco Carrillo, on Oct 20, 2022, 2:35:07 PM

“BlackDiamond Studio (a.k.a. BDS) is the cross-language workbench for any code you have aimed at your Snowflake account.” (GAP Corporation [that's us! we said that!], 2022). As indicated in the …

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Topics:Snowflake

by Jorge Arturo Vasquez Rojas, on Oct 14, 2022, 5:35:19 AM

And by that I mean, do you have some BTEQ (Basic Teradata Query) scripts that you want to convert easily to Snowflake? Not sure what output language you should choose? …

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Topics:SnowflakeTeradataSnowflake Scriptingbteq

by Pedro Meléndez, on Oct 6, 2022, 3:30:00 AM

Since the dawn of exception handling, developers have been raising and catching exceptions in their code. These exceptions can serve a variety of purposes (such as registering why an execution …

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Topics:Snowflake

by Mauricio Rojas, on Sep 29, 2022, 2:10:21 PM

Recently I received a request inspired by this StackOverflow question: To convert a date-string that contains the name of the month in a data-field I could use select to_date('01October2022', 'DDMMMMYYYY') …

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Topics:SnowflakeSQLinternationaldatefunction

by Mauricio Rojas, on Sep 28, 2022, 11:41:16 AM

Data governance is a strategy for handling data within an organization. It is a set of rules, policies, standards, practices, etc. whose main purpose is to ensure data has high …

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Topics:Snowflakesnowparkdata-governance

by Mauricio Rojas, on Sep 27, 2022, 4:42:12 PM

What is AirFlow? Apache Airflow is an open-source workflow management platform for data engineering pipelines. Airflow is written in Python, and workflows are created via Python scripts. Airflow is designed …

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Topics:SnowflakesnowparkSparkSnowpark AcceleratedApache SparkpysparkAirflow

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