Author: Kevin
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Walking Through the Advent of Code Day 2
Time to celebrate my friends! We’ve made it all the way to Day 2! On day 2, we are asked to gather data from a series of games and to see which of those are possible given a specific number of dice for a few colors. Fun times! As always, the first thing we have…
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Walking Through the Advent of Code Day 1 Part 2
Hopefully, you’ve read Walking Through the Advent of Code Day 1 – otherwise, this post is going to be like walking into a 4″x4″ post – rather jolting. I also hope that you’re making progress on the #AdventOfCode series. I’m sure some of you are on the Overall Leaderboard. Be sure to check on the…
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Walking Through the Advent of Code Day 1
Sometimes you need to step back, walk through various coding adventures, and rebalance yourself. Thankfully, I have found one set that I like – and has been running for several years. And it’s all about our actual season – the Advent season. (If you’re reading this long after it’s published, you can also figure out…
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Making Python work with Snowflake For Fun and Pleasure
As we did last week in our post on Creating a new function in Snowflake, I want to talk about some of the scripts and languages I use to make my life easier in Snowflake. As the site LearnPython says: “Today, Python is one of the most popular programming languages because of its beginner-friendly syntax, efficiency, and…
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Creating a new function in Snowflake
Sometimes, you’ll need to create functions that do a particular thing. They’re not always pretty. Some of them look like they should have been thrown out with the bathwater. Unlike SQL Server, user-defined functions in Snowflake can be done in several different languages. They can be done in Java, JavaScript, Python, Scala, or plain-old SQL.…
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Different ways to get to the same thing
When you’re trying to complete a task for the business, the most important thing is to get the data right. Second most important task is to get the data quickly. One of the ways we can get better at speed is to attempt several slightly different ways that can get you (hopefully) the same data.…
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Check Out these URLs with Snowflake Functions
When we’re working with fields that have websites in them, one of the things that we should be doing with them is to double-check that they’re well-formed and usable. Thankfully, Snowflake has a function just for that. With the PARSE_URL function, we can check out if everything is properly formed – meaning that we have…
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In CASE You Want to Use Logic in Snowflake
Sometimes you need to check one field to see if you want to display another field. Sometimes you show one of two fields depending on the value in yet another field. Sometimes you just need to relax… Today, though, we’re going to go thru a myriad of functions that you can use in Snowflake to…
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Figuring out the Number of Months Between Days
Figuring out the number of years or months between 2 dates shouldn’t be hard. For some reason though, for a lot of database systems it is. Take, for example, SQL Server. If I want to know the number of months between 1/1/2023 and 7/4/2023, it’s not too hard. A simple DATEDIFF function and we’re golden.…
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Getting the Minimum or Maximum of One Column
By the title of this post, you’re thinking “Ho hum. Sherpa will tell us about the stupid MIN and MAX functions in Snowflake and how great they are.” Well, they are great. Let’s not kid ourselves about that one. This simply tells us the first employee id in the employees table for each department. Same…