Tim Burns
Best of Breed on the Data Stack
Each vendor that works on the data stack wants to provide a whole solution, but nimble competitors will always overcome sheer amounts of...
Building Health Equity with Analytics and Data Science
THE OWL MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE
Analytics and Data Science for Equity and Social Change
The Owl Mountain Instititute is a non-profit organization dedicated to building Equity and Social change by providing expertise on Enterprise Architecture, Analytics, and Data Science.
Search
Tim Burns
Scripting a Snowflake Stage for AWS
Scripting a Snowflake Stage for AWS is straightforward, but it's easy to get tripped up on the details. 1. Create a Shared Environment...
Tim Burns
Fundamental Data Architecture - The Scheduler
Picking a scheduler is the most fundamental architecture choice one can make. Why? The scheduler drives the entire system and defines...
Tim Burns
The Importance of Real Radio
P-Town Artist Alley photo by Author Listening to music is important to my mental health. That is why I listen to KEXP. It brings new...
Tim Burns
Snowflake Data Ingestion Design Choices
Photo by Author's Wife on Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown As I was playing around with the KEXP Playlist data, I realized that we have...
Tim Burns
A Personal Project - KEXP Favorites Alert
The Author Enjoying some Time at Patriot Place Maybe I'm just old, but AI algorithm playlists like Apple Music, Spotify, and Pandora...
Tim Burns
Random Advice: Commit Messages
I reviewed The Missing Readme for the Geek Culture magazine and it's a little gem of a book filled with wisdom. I like the link to this...
Tim Burns
Dear Tim Burns, this gonna to be a good day
and this is why... It's the full moon Autumn equinox is Wednesday Auspicious time for big changes I may hear great news... But mostly,...
Tim Burns
Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso is a Great Show Ted Lasso is my favorite show on TV right now. The main character is a Football coach turned Soccer coach in...
Tim Burns
What is this TODO Sticky that Says #deltasharing?
I enjoyed writing the Snowflake articles. However, the computing time to write the queries cost me $25. In addition, the queries on my...
Tim Burns
Who Dis?
My articles made the cover of the Snowflake Medium Blog. Organize Role-Based Access in Snowflake using Stored Procedures and...
Tim Burns
Book Review: The Missing Readme
I just started reading The Missing Readme after an interesting interview on Software Engineer Daily. Some quick notes: It's written by...
Tim Burns
Happy Rosh Hashanah
I'm not Jewish, but early September has always felt like a new year to me. This year is no different. After a sometimes quiet,...
Tim Burns
Tableau Surprise - When I searched for KEXP
KEXP - Where the Music Matters As I searched for my daily fix of KEXP, I ran across a Tableau demo dashboard devoted to KEXP. Way to go,...
Tim Burns
Retrospectives: A Critical Role Example
Those who know me well know that I am a Critter and an avid Table Top Role Playing game fan. For those that don't know about Critical...
Tim Burns
I Love Declarative Programming Languages!
There, I said it, I enjoy every declarative language I use HTML SQL JSON YAML These languages - modern or anachronistic - are just...
Tim Burns
Building Better Data Security using BI Analytics
Securing data access is a pathway problem, and that makes it hard. On a toy database presented in a blog article, you might have two or...
Tim Burns
Monitoring and Alerting on Snowflake
Photo by Author Modern Database Administrators face significant security challenges on cloud-enabled databases like Snowflake. Whether...
Tim Burns
Metabase is the Next Big Thing in BI
I've been disappointed with the lack of good BI tools for years. Tableau is too enterprisey. PowerBI has a Windows taint that makes it...
Tim Burns
Assessing User Security on Snowflake
Photo by Author I imagine myself as a grumpy DBA some ten years previous and getting the task of assessing security on a database with...
