In a recent post, I discussed the GREATEST and LEAST functions in SQL Server 2022. Both of these functions exist in Snowflake, but after some testing, I found that they behave differently in Snowflake than in SQL Server when dealing with NULL values. While the functions behave differently, there are options to “get around” theContinue reading “Snowflake: Greatest and Least Functions”
Author Archives: Eric Heilman
Thought Leadership Q&A
In the summer of 2022, I was a panel member during a discussion on thought leadership during one of my employer’s innovation fireside chats. I had been asked to join the panel a few weeks prior on the topic of “thought leadership”. At the time, I wasn’t even sure what thought leadership was. I assumedContinue reading “Thought Leadership Q&A”
Snowflake: Overloading Stored Procedures
In a previous post, I discussed some of the struggles I had with converting a stored procedure from SQL Server to Snowflake – namely, the ability to set input parameters to default values. One way to get around this issue is to “overload” the procedure in Snowflake. Snowflake supports polymorphism whereas SQL Server does not.Continue reading “Snowflake: Overloading Stored Procedures”
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