This almost needs to go unstated, but I write several SQL statements every day in Snowflake. The native Snowflake worksheet experience feels like a reskinning of HUE and does the task just fine. The Snowsight skinning of Numeracy is a superior analytical experience, especially for dashboarding and sharing SQL with…

Snowflake’s native handling of JSON in both READ and WRITE operations is by far and away my favorite feature. For reading JSON I love: The dot notation for addressing JSON elements JSONDoc:Schema:Element::Cast The dot notation for addressing arrays JSONDoc:Schema[0]:”Element”::Cast Dot notation for nested JSON elements JSONDoc:Schema:NestedSchema:Element::Cast Lateral flattening of unbounded…

Have you ever had a new-field or field-rename break your ETL pipelines to the Data Warehouse and ultimately your consumers of data? If you have ever done any data project, the answer is undoubtedly “yes”. To solve this ages-old problem with data, the confluence of some tenants of Hadoop’s schema-on-read…

Learn how to use the Snowflake Data Marketplace with a real example. — The Snowflake Data Marketplace is quickly becoming one of my favorite things about working at Snowflake. With the marketplace, I have live, instant access to some of the world's best datasets to give my data deeper context and meaning. I had the pleasure of recently presenting a virtual hands-on lab…

Last week I published a blog article showcasing how to create a COVID-19 quadrant scatter plot by county and turn the quadrants into a map by county https://bigdatadave.com/2020/11/22/tableau-snowflake-covid-19-by-county-quadrants-maps/. As you can see I had a problem with the big hole in Utah. “Utah is reporting county data somewhat differently than…

With the COVID-19 crisis worsening in America right now, I was curious which areas of the country are being affected more than others? I have been producing loads of SQL over the JHU data set provided by Starschema to the Snowflake Data Marketplace. I thought if I could enhance the…

VS Code is the preferred IDE for many folks developing code for data and analytics. Now there is an extension allowing you to develop and execute SQL for Snowflake in VS Code. Huge thank you to Peter Kosztolanyi ( in) for creating a Snowflake Driver for the popular SQL Tools…

I often get asked for better ways to visualize or interact with task dependencies and hierarchies beyond show tasks. I was on a call with one of my favorite clients from Sunnyvale last Thursday, and we chatted through methods of using Snowsight to do this. With these SQL snippets and…

With pass-through SQL in Tableau and Snowflake you can set session variables in Snowflake to deliver on a variety of use cases. You can create dynamic derived tables, set database security contexts, route queries or expand database connectivity beyond your imagination. I already went over passing in data elements from…