In Snowflake, you can access files external to the Snowflake instance using something called a STAGE. A STAGE is a named object that points to a location such as AWS S3, Azure Storage Account or Google Cloud Storage Buckets, and contains the required authentication credentials to access the files in that storage location. To programmatically …
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There are many situations where you need to identify the iteration of a weekday within a given month. Most commonly though is for the identification of public holidays e.g., the 4th Thursday in November – Thanksgiving in USA. There are no built-in methods to get this information in any SQL-based platform I have used thus …
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What is dynamic SQL? Dynamic SQL is a programming technique where you write a general purpose query and store it in a string variable, then alter key words in the string at runtime to alter the type of actions it will perform, the data it will return or the objects it will perform these actions …
In any data warehousing or analytics solution, you will eventually need to generate a calendar table in order to perform time intelligence analytics. One key aspect that most businesses will require is to view KPIs by working days only i.e. days when the business was operating normally. Each business will have their own unique rule sets …
When creating pipelines in any sort of data flow to move data from an incoming source to a target location, ideally you don’t want to create single-purpose activities. These would only perform one action or set of actions on a specific set of source and target objects. E.g. take the source.sales table, filter out where …
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When would you work with JSON Data? JSON is a popular data representation format used on the web to exchange information between remote parties.It is also used for storing unstructured data in log files or NoSQL Document Databases such as MongoDB or Azure CosmosDB.SQL also has the ability to store JSON data in a text …
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Overview Azure Synapse Analytics Serverless SQL Endpoint has the capability to query files that are stored in an Azure Data Lake using T-SQL code as if they were regular tables in a relational database.These files can be semi-structured or unstructured in nature. Using the Create External Table As Select (CETAS) functionality, you can even generate new …
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What is an External Table? This article will focus on the Synapse Analytics implementation of External Tables.However, note that there are other flavours of external tables and they behave slightly differently depending on which product you are using to defined it. SQL Server SQL Database Azure Synapse Analytics Analytics Platform System (PDW) External Tables in …
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