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Managing Snowflake Data Warehouse Compute in Looker

In a recent blog titled Managing Snowflake Data Warehouse Compute in OBIEE, I explained how to assign application users and roles to use designated compute clusters (warehouses) in Snowflake. The idea of specifying a Snowflake warehouse on a per user (or groups of users) basis is not specific to OBIEE and can be achieved with […]

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Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing

Managing Snowflake Data Warehouse Compute in OBIEE

How to Dynamically Set a Snowflake Virtual Warehouse Congratulations! You just configured Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) to connect to your freshly loaded Snowflake Data Warehouse instance and you’re feeling pretty good. Maybe your OBIEE dashboards are finally meeting SLAs, you’re not sitting with a DBA trying to tune SQL statements, your data is finally all in

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Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing, Looker, Snowflake

Snowflake Data Warehouse and AWS Lambda

Serverless computing is here to stay, and while the term “serverless” is a bit of a misnomer, the concept offers many benefits. Most notably, serverless computing allows developers to focus on writing code and not concern themselves with provisioning, configuring, or maintaining servers. One such example of serverless computing is AWS Lambda. Although there are

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AWS, Cloud Computing, Data Integration, Serverless Architecture, Snowflake, Snowflake Computing

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Summertime and The Presenting is Easy

Do your summer plans include Orlando and Kscope18? Ours do! We are excited to be part of the amazing lineup at the Swan and Dolphin in Orlando, FL on June 10–14. We know it’s tough to decide which sessions to attend but make sure to add these Red Pill Analytics’ sessions to your schedule builder. Let

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Analytics, Cloud Computing, Events, Oracle Development, Red Pill News

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Double down on Red Pill Analytics at Collaborate 2018

Red Pill Analytics is looking forward to placing some bets in Las Vegas for Collaborate18 on April 22–26, 2018. We are honored to be joining the amazing lineup of presentations and panels filled with the latest tips and information about various Oracle topics. Along with presenting Red Pill Analytics likes to take an active role

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Analytics, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Analytics, Industry Events, Oracle, Red Pill News

A Jump to the Cloud

Written by: Phil Goerdt and Mike Fuller Several years ago, I was working on an enterprise reporting project at a Fortune 15 company at about the same time that cloud-based services were really starting to catch on. During one of our meetings, a colleague of mine on the client side asked me to “explain what

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Cloud, Cloud Computing, Red Pill News

Lookering at Version Control

If you follow Red Pill Analytics at all, you know that we have our hands in a bit of everything when it comes to data and analytics; having the opportunity to work with various tools and technologies is one of the many benefits to working at RPA. One particular tool that we have found ourselves

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Cloud Computing, Data, Git, Looker, Version Control

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Bulk Loading Zone

Whether it’s an enterprise application, the automobile you drive, or your favorite tea kettle, seemingly everything in the world today produces data. This results in a need to transfer data to a place where people and technology can make sense of it. Typically, the faster data can be transferred and more data that can be

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AWS, Cloud Computing, Data, Snowflake Computing