Data Engineering
Fivetran Acquires HVR: You’re in for a Treat
Find out why Fivetran’s acquisition of HVR with is great news for organizations looking to optimize their data pipelines and streamline operations.
Enabling Scalable Machine Learning in Snowflake using SQL, Python and Bodo
Most database engines have begun to supplement their SQL capabilities by offering Python query support to allow their more data science inclined users to embed advanced statistics or machine learning code into query pipelines or data visualization tools like Tableau. Snowflake has been bucking that trend — until now.
Testing SQL Pool Performance in Azure Synapse Analytics
The feature set of Synapse Analytics is considerably richer than that of a “plain” old Azure SQL Database, but what benefits do we get from the smallest dedicated pool?
Introducing the Starschema Worldwide Address Data Set in Snowflake
We’re happy to announce that, as part of our ongoing effort to democratize data, we’ve taken over as the provider of The Worldwide Address Data Set, a free and open global address collection on the Snowflake Data Marketplace.
Vaccine Tracking Added to The Starschema COVID-19 Epidemiological Dataset
In our effort to help organizations assess contingency plans and make informed, data-driven decisions in real-time as they respond to the global health emergency, we’ve added vaccine tracking from the University of Oxford to the Starschema COVID-19 Epidemiological Dataset.
StarSnow: HTTP Client for Snowflake SQL
Snowflake is an extremely SQL-friendly database: you can ingest, transform, and access your structured and semi-structured data directly from your SQL code. However, as a cloud-only data platform, it has some fundamental restrictions...