Documentation in dbt
Documenting a database structure is as vital as it is often overlooked. Many times the need for an extensive documentation can end up an afterthought, requiring... Read more.
Beyond dbt fundamentals: The analytics engineering mock project
Having all completed the dbt fundamentals course, the next goal in the Nimbus Academy is passing the dbt Analytics Engineering exam. In addition to those techni... Read more.
Extending the data workflow with dbt
Having passed our SnowPro Core exam last week, we have now started on extending and enriching our data workflow. One of the tools at our disposal for this is db... Read more.
Time travel in Snowflake
Every database administrator has at some point in their life had the dreaded call: Something went wrong in the production database. Corrupted data was inserted,... Read more.
Semi-structured data in Snowflake
The easiest form of data to load into a SQL database is fully structured. Comma separated values (CSV) files can be loaded into a tabular structure without any ... Read more.
Collaboration in practice
After our first month of getting up to speed in Snowflake and SQL, the first project week is here. In remote teams of two we are coding a Python app...... Read more.
The Nimbus traineeship: One month in
It’s been four weeks since we kicked off our Nimbus traineeship as the second cohort. With three months to go in our initial training, this seems a good momen... Read more.
Warehouse elasticity – Scaling up and scaling out
As my colleague Gerard mentioned in his blog on features of Snowflake, warehouse elasticity is an important part of Snowflake. Being able to increase computing ... Read more.
Van laboratoriumanalist naar analytics engineer
Tot vorige maand werkte ik in als laboratoriumanalist moleculaire biologie. Hier hield ik mij bezig met genotypering van planten en dieren. In de komende maande... Read more.
