I was looking at a project Mobilize.Net is moving from Spark to Snowpark, and this question popped up: Is there a way to use my .egg files in Snowpark? Technically, …

Have you heard the news? There is a great new platform for Data Science and it is called Snowpark. But like many others, you might feel a little lost about …

Recently I received a request inspired by this StackOverflow question: To convert a date-string that contains the name of the month in a data-field I could use select to_date('01October2022', 'DDMMMMYYYY') …

Data governance is a strategy for handling data within an organization. It is a set of rules, policies, standards, practices, etc. whose main purpose is to ensure data has high …

What is AirFlow? Apache Airflow is an open-source workflow management platform for data engineering pipelines. Airflow is written in Python, and workflows are created via Python scripts. Airflow is designed …

Last week, we published a blog post on how to write a Scala UDF for Snowflake using BlackDiamond Studio. This week? We've taken our talents to Python. We'll take the …

Whenever you migrate SQL Server IF statements that are found within scalar functions using BlackDiamond Studio, you will soon find out that they require special handling to make them work …

Snowflake provides a set of built-in functions which can be used to manipulate your data. (In Snowflake's documentation, you can find a big list that describes all of those functions) …

In the last 12 hours two blasts from the past showed up in my feed. First, this excellent github readme which is a super-simple explainer of what exactly assembly language …

Code migration always presents unique and interest challenges. As the longtime leaders in migration tooling, we’ve seen a lot of those challenges. When we find one that’s interesting, we like …