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Each vendor that works on the data stack wants to provide a whole solution, but nimble competitors will always overcome sheer amounts of...
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Each vendor that works on the data stack wants to provide a whole solution, but nimble competitors will always overcome sheer amounts of...
Scripting a Snowflake Stage for AWS is straightforward, but it's easy to get tripped up on the details. 1. Create a Shared Environment...
Picking a scheduler is the most fundamental architecture choice one can make. Why? The scheduler drives the entire system and defines...
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...
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...
The Author Enjoying some Time at Patriot Place Maybe I'm just old, but AI algorithm playlists like Apple Music, Spotify, and Pandora...
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...
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,...
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...
I enjoyed writing the Snowflake articles. However, the computing time to write the queries cost me $25. In addition, the queries on my...
My articles made the cover of the Snowflake Medium Blog. Organize Role-Based Access in Snowflake using Stored Procedures and...
I just started reading The Missing Readme after an interesting interview on Software Engineer Daily. Some quick notes: It's written by...
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,...
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,...
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...
There, I said it, I enjoy every declarative language I use HTML SQL JSON YAML These languages - modern or anachronistic - are just...
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...
Photo by Author Modern Database Administrators face significant security challenges on cloud-enabled databases like Snowflake. Whether...
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...
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...