I am mourning my friend Bob Lee. http://blog.crazybob.org/2006/12/five-things-you-may-not-know-about-me.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

As a database developer, I take surrogate keys for granted. The surrogate key is the backbone of a data architecture. In the Kimball...

I'm pitching a book on Big Data Analytics and Data Engineering, and the proposal worksheet has a field that says, "Author public speaking...

Today at the First Unitarian Church of Providence, where I am a member, the sermon was on the Gospel of Thomas, one of the Gnostic...

The Data Warehouse (Lakehouse) So we want to store all our data in a data warehouse to make business decisions based on data. Every data...

I received an email from a company asking me to write training manuals for them, and it got me thinking. If I were to create materials,...

I am gradually working through the Kimball Model through various blog postings. Reading the postings in order would make more sense, and...

I am so heart-warmed this morning to get this video of my mother who was an amazing person and teacher.

References Snowflake (2021) SNS subscription remains in the Pending state while configuring Snowpipe using SNS AWS (2023) Walkthrough:...

Once we've gathered the data we need into a data lake, we need to assess the quality and build pipelines to get all data to a consistent...

You have a mountain of data and the unlimited potential of a cloud data architecture to load it, but where should you start? Maybe you...

ChatGPT is a great data modeling tool. I wanted to generalize my data model for my radio station data warehouse, and I asked ChatGPT to...

Sequence Basics Sequences are the unsung heroes of a data application. I like to think about sequences in two forms: Surrogate keys - the...

From the Pirate Missy - Pretty much sums up how I feel today.

The Author Chopping Wood on a Winters Day Set up a Secure Storage Integration and Create Stages The foundation of data discovery is a...

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash Snowflake is an Enterprise-Level Data Platform for the major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, and GCP. ...

Photo by Ethan Sykes on Unsplash The writings of Thomas Merton spoke to me when I was in college. I borrowed the Seven Story Mountain...

It is Martin Luther King day, and I am fortunate to have a holiday. However, I haven't lost sight of my goal of becoming an entrepreneur...

We swore in new deacons today at church, and the charge to the deacons resonated as a charge we can take for any leadership vocation....

Photo by Author of the Never Summer Mountain Range Many years ago, I had a colleague who had a similar role I now have: Build and...