Snowflake’s ACCOUNT_USAGE is powerful but often too complex. I built a cost analyst with Snowflake Intelligence: 19+ views merged into 6 tables, 25 billing rules, enabling questions like “why did costs spike?”
Using dlt’s AI workbench and Claude Code, I reverse‑engineered our ERP's undocumented 1,200+ table schema and produced an annotated DBML model plus ontology.
A PII-safe alternative to Brave web search for Snowflake Cortex Agents, using Perplexity and AI_REDACT
Snowflake tasks are great... until one stops running and nobody notices.
Taking Snowflake Cortex Code for a spin
Own your data: A simple, almost-free first‑party tracking stack
Ad-hoc analytics using Claude Code, MotherDuck and mviz to create visualizations
In my last post I explored whether dlt could run in a Snowflake UDF... and failed. But can it still run inside Snowflake using a Container? TL/DR: yes, it does 😎
So, dlt by dltHub runs "where Python runs"... I guess that means it should run in a Snowflake UDF, too. TL/DR: no, it doesn't 😎 But hey: negative results are results, too, right? 😅
How to add a "Update Data" Button to a Tableau Dashboard
How and why to use Snapshots/Backups in Snowflake
When using Network Policies and Entra Provisioning to Snowflake, you either go public or combine multiple Network Rules