by Dan Galavan | Jun 17, 2022 | Blog, Data Modeling, Snowflake, Snowflake Data Cloud, Uncategorized
One of the many new feature announcements at this year’s Snowflake Summit was Snowflake Unistore Hybrid Tables. The Hybrid Table offering stores data to support fast single-row transactions along with storing the data in columnar format. In other words: The...
by Dan Galavan | Dec 7, 2021 | Analytics, Blog, Data Governance, Data Integration, Open Data, Secure Data Sharing, Snowflake Data Cloud, Snowflake Data Marketplace, Snowflake Data Sharing, The Third Wave of Open Data
“Organizations cannot just pump out data for the sake of data and hope that maybe someone will find it”- Jaimie Boyd, Chief Digital Officer for the government of British Columbia during the Summer of Open Data. The Summer of Open Data, which took place in 2020,...
by Dan Galavan | Sep 21, 2021 | Analytics, Blog, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Mesh, Data Modeling, Data Warehouse
Are you excited / on the fence / downright sceptical about a data mesh? Not long after a new buzzword makes the mainstream, a train of hype often follows 🚇. How do we decode the top notch promotion vs. the value vs. the pitfalls? As Bill Inmon said in his note...
by Dan Galavan | Apr 14, 2021 | Analytics, Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Flow Automation, Data Integration, Data Lake, Data Modeling, Data Vault, Data Warehouse, Snowflake Data Cloud
A data model is a communication tool Data models are core components of a successful data pipeline, whether formally or informally. They influence how Data Engineers develop the desired data transformation logic. Data models support data governance, data...
by Dan Galavan | Jul 16, 2020 | Analytics, Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Snowflake, Snowflake Cloud Data Platform, Snowsight
With the acquisition of Numeracy in March 2019, Snowflake took a step towards enhancing the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform web user experience. This is in the form of a new offering called Snowflake Snowsight. Not only does Snowsight provide features such as...
