Last week, Snowflake announced that their support for Python in Snowflake (and Snowpark) is now generally available. Today, Mobilize.Net announces SnowConvert for PySpark is available in both assessment and conversion …

SnowConvert for PySpark is now available in Assessment Mode. Now, you can take any Spark code you may have written in Python and get an assessment of your PySpark code …

Spark is a big deal in big data and so is Snowflake, but what if you want to run your Spark SQL queries with a prebuilt connection to a Snowflake …

“BlackDiamond Studio (a.k.a. BDS) is the cross-language workbench for any code you have aimed at your Snowflake account.” (Mobilize.Net Corporation [that's us! we said that!], 2022). As indicated in the …

Got BTEQ? And by that I mean, do you have some BTEQ (Basic Teradata Query) scripts that you want to convert easily to Snowflake? Not sure what output language you …

Since the dawn of exception handling, developers have been raising and catching exceptions in their code. These exceptions can serve a variety of purposes (such as registering why an execution …

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 …