Exporting Snowflake data to Excel
Generate XLSX files directly from Snowflake using a small Snowpark stored procedure, writing straight to a stage so stakeholders get ready-to-use Excel workbooks without any CSV exports or manual conversions
Generate XLSX files directly from Snowflake using a small Snowpark stored procedure, writing straight to a stage so stakeholders get ready-to-use Excel workbooks without any CSV exports or manual conversions
Snowflake’s interactive warehouses sit in a sweet spot for user-facing workloads: they cost 60% of a same-sized standard warehouse, can stay warm across business hours, and still serve sub‑second lookups from an interactive table
Claude Code and Snowflake's Cortex Code turn out to be the same agent wearing different hats - and that's exactly what makes them worth combining. A filesystem handoff between two AI agents replaced hours of manual Snowsight clicking.
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? 😅
Infrastructure
How to add a "Update Data" Button to a Tableau Dashboard
Lakehouse
How and why to use Snapshots/Backups in Snowflake
Lakehouse
When using Network Policies and Entra Provisioning to Snowflake, you either go public or combine multiple Network Rules
Lakehouse
Let's cut out the middle-tool 😜
Lakehouse
Wait, what? Child labor?
Lakehouse
We don't need no orchestration!
Lakehouse
Is the combination of PyIceberg and Azure ready for multi-engine compute, yet?
Lakehouse
Send requests to (and receive responses from) the Perplexity API using a Snowflake Snowsight notebook
Digital Analytics
How to make sense and use of server-side tracking logs from a webserver
Digital Analytics
How to track conversions from Google Ads and Meta without any cookies
Lakehouse
Dynamic Tables in Snowflake
Lakehouse
Use Snowflake Cortex COMPLETE in Teams via Power Automate