Towards AI

JANUARY 28, 2024

To start, get to know some key terms from the demo: Snowflake: The centralized source of truth for our initial data Magic ETL: Domo’s tool for combining and preparing data tables ERP: A supplemental data source from Salesforce Geographic: A supplemental data source (i.e., Instagram) used in the demo Why Snowflake?

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phData

AUGUST 9, 2023

With ELT, we first extract data from source systems, then load the raw data directly into the data warehouse before finally applying transformations natively within the data warehouse. This is unlike the more traditional ETL method, where data is transformed before loading into the data warehouse.

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phData

JULY 17, 2023

Over the past few decades, the corporate data landscape has changed significantly. The shift from on-premise databases and spreadsheets to the modern era of cloud data warehouses and AI/ LLMs has transformed what businesses can do with data. This is where Fivetran and the Modern Data Stack come in.

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phData

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Using cloud data services can be nerve-wracking for some companies. Yes, it’s cheaper, faster, and more efficient than keeping your data on-premises, but you’re at the provider’s mercy regarding your available data. Things like this always happen, taking many hours and expenses to get right.

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phData

APRIL 29, 2024

Understanding Fivetran Fivetran is a popular Software-as-a-Service platform that enables users to automate the movement of data and ETL processes across diverse sources to a target destination. For a longer overview, along with insights and best practices, please feel free to jump back to the previous blog.

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phData

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As organizations embrace the benefits of data vault, it becomes crucial to ensure optimal performance in the underlying data platform. One such platform that has revolutionized cloud data warehousing is the Snowflake Data Cloud. However, joining tables using a hash key can take longer than a sequential key.

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Alation

JANUARY 17, 2023

Data ingestion/integration services. Reverse ETL tools. Data orchestration tools. These tools are used to manage big data, which is defined as data that is too large or complex to be processed by traditional means. How Did the Modern Data Stack Get Started? A Note on the Shift from ETL to ELT.

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Precisely

APRIL 3, 2023

How can an organization enable flexible digital modernization that brings together information from multiple data sources, while still maintaining trust in the integrity of that data? To speed analytics, data scientists implemented pre-processing functions to aggregate, sort, and manage the most important elements of the data.

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Data Science Dojo

JULY 3, 2024

Big Data Technologies : Handling and processing large datasets using tools like Hadoop, Spark, and cloud platforms such as AWS and Google Cloud. Data Processing and Analysis : Techniques for data cleaning, manipulation, and analysis using libraries such as Pandas and Numpy in Python.

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Data Science Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

For existing event sources, listeners are utilized to stream writes directly from database logs or similar data stores. By treating every data point as a streaming event, the Kappa architecture enables the ability to near-realtime analytics and observe the state of all data in the organization at any given point.

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phData

JUNE 14, 2023

In recent years, data engineering teams working with the Snowflake Data Cloud platform have embraced the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) software development process to develop data products and manage ETL/ELT workloads more efficiently.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 29, 2020

Data management approaches are varied and may be categorised in the following: Cloud data management. The storage and processing of data through a cloud-based system of applications. Master data management. Extraction, Transform, Load (ETL). It is used for managing processes in a data cloud warehouse.

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phData

MARCH 8, 2023

Fivetran is an automated data integration platform that offers a convenient solution for businesses to consolidate and sync data from disparate data sources. With over 160 data connectors available, Fivetran makes it easy to move data out of, into, and across any cloud data platform in the market.

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Precisely

JUNE 2, 2023

As companies strive to leverage AI/ML, location intelligence, and cloud analytics into their portfolio of tools, siloed mainframe data often stands in the way of forward momentum. CDC replicates data in real time by ingesting database logs, parsing the information they contain, and initiating parallel changes in a target system.

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phData

JANUARY 5, 2023

Python has proven proficient in setting up pipelines, maintaining data flows, and transforming data with its simple syntax and proficiency in automation. Having been built completely for and in the cloud, the Snowflake Data Cloud has become an industry leader in cloud data platforms.

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phData

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Data integration is essentially the Extract and Load portion of the Extract, Load, and Transform (ELT) process. Data ingestion involves connecting your data sources, including databases, flat files, streaming data, etc, to your data warehouse. Snowflake provides native ways for data ingestion.

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phData

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Creating the databases, schemas, roles, and access grants that comprise a data system information architecture can be time-consuming and error-prone. Luckily phData has created a template-driven Provision Tool that automates onboarding users and projects to Snowflake, allowing your data teams to start producing real value immediately.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Cloud-based business intelligence (BI): Cloud-based BI tools enable organizations to access and analyze data from cloud-based sources and on-premises databases. These tools offer the flexibility of accessing insights from anywhere, and they often integrate with other cloud analytics solutions.

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Mlearning.ai

JULY 10, 2023

In my 7 years of Data Science journey, I’ve been exposed to a number of different databases including but not limited to Oracle Database, MS SQL, MySQL, EDW, and Apache Hadoop. It will automatically scale queries to handle any size data set, so you can focus on analyzing your data.

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phData

JANUARY 4, 2023

With Snowflake, organizations can be data consumers, data providers, or both. Complete SQL Database No need to learn new tools as Snowflake supports the tools millions of business users already know how to use today.

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phData

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Snowflake Data Cloud is a leading cloud data platform that provides various features and services for data storage, processing, and analysis. A new feature that Snowflake offers is the ability to create alerts based on data in Snowflake. How does CRON work for scheduling alerts?

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phData

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The Snowflake Data Cloud is a leading cloud data platform that provides various features and services for data storage, processing, and analysis. A new feature that Snowflake offers is called Snowpark, which provides an intuitive library for querying and processing data at scale in Snowflake.

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phData

JULY 10, 2024

Unlike traditional BI tools, its user-friendly interface ensures that users of all technical levels can seamlessly interact with data. The platform’s integration with cloud data warehouses like Snowflake AI Data Cloud , Google BigQuery, and Amazon Redshift makes it a vital tool for organizations harnessing big data.

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phData

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

. “ This sounds great in theory, but how does it work in practice with customer data or something like a ‘composable CDP’? Well, implementing transitional modeling does require a shift in how we think about and work with customer data. It often involves specialized databases designed to handle this kind of atomic, temporal data.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

JULY 17, 2023

Through workload optimization across multiple query engines and storage tiers, organizations can reduce data warehouse costs by up to 50 percent. 1 Watsonx.data offers built-in governance and automation to get to trusted insights within minutes, and integrations with existing databases and tools to simplify setup and user experience.

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Alation

MARCH 22, 2022

As the latest iteration in this pursuit of high-quality data sharing, DataOps combines a range of disciplines. It synthesizes all we’ve learned about agile, data quality , and ETL/ELT. And it injects mature process control techniques from the world of traditional engineering.

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phData

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Modern low-code/no-code ETL tools allow data engineers and analysts to build pipelines seamlessly using a drag-and-drop and configure approach with minimal coding. One such option is the availability of Python Components in Matillion ETL, which allows us to run Python code inside the Matillion instance.

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Flipboard

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Amazon Redshift powers data-driven decisions for tens of thousands of customers every day with a fully managed, AI-powered cloud data warehouse, delivering the best price-performance for your analytics workloads. Learn more about the AWS zero-ETL future with newly launched AWS databases integrations with Amazon Redshift.

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phData

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Snowflake’s Data Cloud has emerged as a leader in cloud data warehousing. As a fundamental piece of the modern data stack , Snowflake is helping thousands of businesses store, transform, and derive insights from their data easier, faster, and more efficiently than ever before.

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phData

APRIL 20, 2023

Hashed PKs were introduced as a means of eliminating the bottleneck encountered by most database sequence generators, making this DV pattern ideal for customers prioritizing data loading performance and using data warehouse automation tools. By combining the Snowflake Data Cloud with a Data Vault 2.0

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phData

JULY 18, 2023

With the birth of cloud data warehouses, data applications, and generative AI , processing large volumes of data faster and cheaper is more approachable and desired than ever. This typically results in long-running ETL pipelines that cause decisions to be made on stale or old data.

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Alation

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Reduced User Experience : As previously mentioned, data silos can lead to problems down the road. Applications may draw data from different databases, sometimes in different formats. Keeping data siloed also makes adopting new technologies more difficult.

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