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Since I arrived at Snowflake, I’ve been using a dataset from the NYC Citibike program as my demo data. It’s about 61M bike trip records with lat/lon data for the starting and ending bike stations, and I’ve been showing it … Continue reading →

Hello, gentle reader. It’s been a while. I hope you are well. 🙂 Today, I was helping a colleague with a problem that stems from the fact that the current version of the Snowflake driver in Tableau doesn’t correctly support … Continue reading →

One of Snowflake’s key features is something called multi-cluster warehouses. By default, a virtual warehouse consists of a single cluster of servers that determines the total resources available to the warehouse for executing queries. As queries are submitted to a … Continue reading →

A few days ago I was invited to present Snowflake as part of a webinar run with our partner BockCorp. Check out the recording of the session here, which includes an overview of the Snowflake architecture as well as a … Continue reading →

Update 18 July 2018: The whitepaper has now been released as an official Snowflake whitepaper so I’ve updated the download link to point to the document on the Snowflake website. The new whitepaper is much prettier and has been through … Continue reading →

Happy New Year everyone! I’ve been a bit quiet of late. Probably to be expected, what with getting my head around all the new stuff here at Snowflake. Also, properly relaxing over Christmas and summer requires a degree of focus … Continue reading →

Well it was a bittersweet day on Friday. After 6+ years at Tableau I have decided that it’s time for a new challenge. Tomorrow I start my first day at Snowflake Computing, a company that is revolutionising the cloud analytic … Continue reading →

An interesting tweet came across my Twitter-stream the other day, showing a hexbin scatterplot chart type for Power BI: Having just presented a session at TC17 on working with dense data where Sarah Battersby and I covered (among other things) … Continue reading →

Well, it’s been a hectic week in Las Vegas for our customer conference but I have a brief window to put up this post. If you’ve been here, I hope you had a great time and learned heaps! One of … Continue reading →

I thought it might be helpful to share with you a recent experience where I was helping a customer who was complaining of slow performing workbooks. When I arrived their Tableau analyst showed me a couple of workbooks that were … Continue reading →