From my most recent blog about @SnowflakeDB:
If you are like me and fairly new to this whole cloud thing, then one of your main questions is likely:
“How do I get data from my desktop (or server) into Snowflake so I can query it?”
Which, in reality, translates to:
“How do I load data in the cloud?”
Read the rest of the post to see how: Tech Tip: Quick Start for Getting Your Data into Snowflake
Happy Data Loading!
Kent
The Data Warrior
I just got back from a whirlwind tour that included a trip to San Francisco to visit the Snowflake HQ, attend the annual Oracle ACE Directors briefing, meetings and events at Oracle OpenWorld (OOW), speaking at OakTable World (OTW), then off to Chicago to speak at Enterprise Dataversity.
Yes it was packed. And lots of talk about cloud everything!
Oracle #ACED briefing prior to #OOW16 pic.twitter.com/uP8qNUHoXV
— Johan Louwers (@johanlouwers) September 16, 2016
Thanks to the great folks at OTN (Roland and Jennifer) for hosting us again this year at Oracle HQ.
Here are a few highlights:
Now an annual event is doing Chi Gung by the lake behind the Sofitel with a few ACE Director friends before the *top secret* briefing.
Thanks @KentGraziano for the morning exercise @HeliFromFinland @debralilley @alexnuijten @MDWidlake # ACED pic.twitter.com/Q92jekKPoW
— Yury Velikanov (@yvelik) September 15, 2016
Well, sort of. This year I walked the Golden Gate Bridge (5K) and took a dip in SF Bay in the 5th Annual Swim The Bay. Proud to say I have attended all 5 years of that event.
Nothing like a brisk morning walk to start the day!
Then there is the brisk swim!
And this year, I got a pretty good size group to do Chi Gung on the beach after the swim (to warm ourselves back up!)
Time to get that chi flowing after the swim!
I think this is the 3rd time I have presented at the un-conference run in parallel to OOW. But this year was the 1st time I did it as an Oaktable member! Gave my talk on Building a Virtualized ODS using SQL Developer Data Modeler.
No picture from that talk (sorry) but I did a very short Chi Gung set with the attendees at lunch time to get them moving out of their seats.
Chi Gung @otw42 #otw42 with @KentGraziano pic.twitter.com/cCOsXiOfdm
— Kyle Hailey (@dbavigil) September 19, 2016
This was the best part – getting to do an interview with my good friend Laura Ramsey from OTN about data modeling and data warehousing in the cloud. Check out my full interview here.
Live cast interview from the Moscone at OOW 2016
For the Dataversity event in Chicago, I got to stay at the very classy Drake Hotel right on the lake shore with a great view.
Awesome View!
Oh, and my talk on Data Warehousing in 2016 and Beyond went great. I learned a lot in the various keynotes and even got an introduction to Data Science.
John Akred from @SVDataScience discusses difference between #BI and #DataScience #edv16 pic.twitter.com/zlULDM152A
— Kent Graziano (@KentGraziano) September 22, 2016
Well that is my little update for now.
Check my speaking page to see where I will be next!
Ciao.
Kent
The Data Warrior
Hi folks. Time to update y’all on some upcoming speaking engagements for this summer and fall.
Here are a few talks I have scheduled:
When: August 9, 2016 1:30 PM
Where: BP Westlake Campus, Helios Plaza, Houston, TX
Topic 1: Harnessing the Elasticity of the Cloud for Analytics with Snowflake and Tableau
Topic 2: Agile Data Warehousing – Building a Virtualized ODS
Register: Houston DAMA Meetup
When: August 17, 2016 5:30 PM
Where: Charles Schwab, Lone Tree, CO (Denver Tech Center)
Topic: Agile Data Warehousing – Building a Virtualized ODS
Register: Agile BI Meetup
When: August 18, 2016 5:30 PM
Where: WebPT, Westminster, CO
Topic: Agile Data Warehousing – Building a Virtualized ODS
Register: Agile BI Meetup
When: September 21, 2016 8:30 AM
Where: The Drake Hotel, Chicago, Ill
Topic: Data Warehousing in 2016 and Beyond
Register: Enterprise Dataversity
When: October 26, 2016
Where: Salt Lake Community College Miller Campus, SLC, Utah
Session #1: Agile Data Warehousing: Using Oracle Data Modeler (SDDM) to build a Virtualized ODS
Session #2: Agile Methods and Data Warehousing: How to Deliver Faster
Session #3: Data Warehousing in the Real World
Register: UTOUG Registration – Coming Soon!
When: October 28, 2016
Where: Charlotte Convention Center, NC
Topic: Agile Methods and Data Warehousing: How to Deliver Faster
Register: SFA Registration
When: November 2 & 3, 2016
Where: Hilton North Raleigh/Midtown Hotel, Raleigh, NC
Topic #1: Agile Data Warehousing: Using Oracle Data Modeler (SDDM) to build a Virtualized ODS
Topic #2: Data Warehousing in 2016
Register: ECO Registration
There are more talks in the planning process so be sure to check back.
Hope to see you at one of these events!
Love your data!
Kent
The Data Warrior
Heads up! I will be giving a webinar next week, called Enabling Cloud-Native Elastic Data Warehousing to introduce folks to the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse. Sign up here and join me on July 12th!
Special thanks to DAMA International for inviting me to do this!
See you there!
Kent
The Data Warrior
My good friends at RedPill Analytics have done it again! In their never ending mission to #ChallengeEverything, they thought it would be cool to try to connect OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) to the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse as a way to give OBIEE users access to a high performance data warehouse cloud service. This is their story:
If you’re reading this post, you’ve probably seen my other post on connecting OBIEE to Amazon Web Services’ Redshift database offering. If not, thanks for joining in for this part of the adventure. To summarize the last post, cloud applications are becoming increasingly more common, and because of this fact, more of the data that is produced and consumed will be in the cloud. How can we connect on-premises business intelligence tools to these cloud sources? Specifically, how can we connect OBIEE to them?
See the details on how to connect to Snowflake here:
Forecast: Partly Cloudy (Part 2) — Connecting OBIEE to Snowflake
Here comes the sun!
Kent
The Data Warrior
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