https://just-tim.com/ New Snowflake posts from just-tim. en-gb https://just-tim.com/posts/meet-thoughtspot-analytics-platform-with-ceo-ketan-karkhanis--svp-francois-lopitaux https://just-tim.com/posts/meet-thoughtspot-analytics-platform-with-ceo-ketan-karkhanis--svp-francois-lopitaux Tue, 05 May 2026 09:40:41 GMT ThoughtSpot's CEO and product lead walk me through a platform that's pivoted from search-driven BI to agentic analytics, where Spotter builds the model, the dashboards and the answers for you. https://just-tim.com/posts/meet-hex-an-ai-powered-analytics-platform-with-notebooks-apps-and-more-featuring-rachel-herrera https://just-tim.com/posts/meet-hex-an-ai-powered-analytics-platform-with-notebooks-apps-and-more-featuring-rachel-herrera Mon, 04 May 2026 13:24:43 GMT Hex wants to be the best tool for data work in general, not the best dashboard tool, so you switch cells instead of switching tabs. https://just-tim.com/posts/in-database-processing-in-tableau-prep-snowflake https://just-tim.com/posts/in-database-processing-in-tableau-prep-snowflake Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:28:25 GMT In-database processing in Tableau Prep for Snowflake is powerful, but watch those credits. https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-prep-20261-features-snowflake-in-database-hyper-as-a-service--new-connectors https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-prep-20261-features-snowflake-in-database-hyper-as-a-service--new-connectors Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:35:46 GMT Tableau Prep is quietly sneaking up on Alteryx, and 2026.1 brings spatial joins, Snowflake in-database processing and Hyper as a Service. https://just-tim.com/posts/andy-cotgreave--a-conversation-on-dashboards-and-the-future-of-bi https://just-tim.com/posts/andy-cotgreave--a-conversation-on-dashboards-and-the-future-of-bi Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:28:21 GMT Andy Cotgreave and I argue that charging people for curiosity is antithetical to everything good BI was built on. https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-20253-release-whats-new-in-pulse-desktop-public-and-more https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-20253-release-whats-new-in-pulse-desktop-public-and-more Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:53:48 GMT There are no big hitters in 2025.3, but it's packed with the small quality-of-life updates that quietly justify Tableau's premium price. https://just-tim.com/posts/cost-per-query-your-dashboards-are-about-to-look-expensive https://just-tim.com/posts/cost-per-query-your-dashboards-are-about-to-look-expensive Sat, 04 Oct 2025 20:02:17 GMT Consumption pricing is coming to Tableau Next, and once a dashboard has a cost per query, best practice quietly becomes whatever is cheapest to run. https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2025-1-features-release-overview-see-timestamps https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2025-1-features-release-overview-see-timestamps Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Tableau 2025.1 is here, and a lot of it is already live as a rolling release, so let's go through every feature and the ones I'm still cautious about. https://just-tim.com/posts/s4-e2-byte-nfts-snowflake-and-aggregators https://just-tim.com/posts/s4-e2-byte-nfts-snowflake-and-aggregators Mon, 22 Apr 2024 21:38:24 GMT NFTs, Snowflake and cloud aggregators — three trends that look like hype until you work out what they're actually for. https://just-tim.com/posts/how-tableau-pulse-works-new-in-tableau-2024-1 https://just-tim.com/posts/how-tableau-pulse-works-new-in-tableau-2024-1 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT Pulse splits metric creation into definitions and metrics, and once you grasp that distinction the whole thing clicks. https://just-tim.com/posts/everybodys-introduction-to-snowflake--available-free-on-linkedin-learning-via-my-link https://just-tim.com/posts/everybodys-introduction-to-snowflake--available-free-on-linkedin-learning-via-my-link Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:00:24 GMT I've taken everything I've learned about making Snowflake content and put it into a free course that makes databases accessible to everyone in the business. https://just-tim.com/posts/snowflake-summit-2023-keynote-summary--snowflake-summit https://just-tim.com/posts/snowflake-summit-2023-keynote-summary--snowflake-summit Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:28:50 GMT I watched the four-hour Snowflake Summit keynote twice so you don't have to, and here's everything that actually got announced. https://just-tim.com/posts/snowflake-summit-2023-keynote-full-breakdown--snowflake-summit https://just-tim.com/posts/snowflake-summit-2023-keynote-full-breakdown--snowflake-summit Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:14:43 GMT I'm a three-year Snowflake customer watching the whole 2023 keynote and giving you my honest, context-filled reaction, hype, marketing renderings and all. https://just-tim.com/posts/google-analytics-4-connector-for-tableau-new-in-tableau https://just-tim.com/posts/google-analytics-4-connector-for-tableau-new-in-tableau Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT Google Analytics is changing its underlying architecture, so if you rely on the old Tableau connector, here's everything you need to know about GA4. https://just-tim.com/posts/what-s-coming-soon-in-tableau-2023-1-new-in-tableau-2023-1 https://just-tim.com/posts/what-s-coming-soon-in-tableau-2023-1-new-in-tableau-2023-1 Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT It's good to be back, and 23.1 is the quiet first release of the year where Tableau lays groundwork, with a few quality-of-life wins that are genuinely overdue. https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-connect-to-different-data-sources-in-tableau-a-beginners-guide https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-connect-to-different-data-sources-in-tableau-a-beginners-guide Sun, 05 Feb 2023 13:14:47 GMT Connecting to data is one of the most basic things in Tableau, so here's a great starting point for hooking up to pretty much any data source. https://just-tim.com/posts/setup-visual-studio-code-for-snowflake-learn-snowflake https://just-tim.com/posts/setup-visual-studio-code-for-snowflake-learn-snowflake Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT If you're already in VS Code doing data work, here's how to query Snowflake without ever leaving the editor. https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-load-data-into-a-snowflake-database-from-aws-s3-learning-snowflake https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-load-data-into-a-snowflake-database-from-aws-s3-learning-snowflake Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT I'm learning Snowflake myself, so I'll show you how to load S3 data and every mistake I made getting there. https://just-tim.com/posts/analytics-extensions-explained-with-aidan-moore-data-science-in-tableau-more https://just-tim.com/posts/analytics-extensions-explained-with-aidan-moore-data-science-in-tableau-more Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT Aidan's big realisation: because a Python script can return zero and do nothing, it can also do anything. https://just-tim.com/posts/move-assets-into-projects-new-in-tableau-2022-3 https://just-tim.com/posts/move-assets-into-projects-new-in-tableau-2022-3 Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT Moving external assets into projects sounds simple until you try to move them back out and your brain gets fried. https://just-tim.com/posts/table-extensions-for-data-science-and-more-new-in-tableau-2022-3-data-science-in-tableau https://just-tim.com/posts/table-extensions-for-data-science-and-more-new-in-tableau-2022-3-data-science-in-tableau Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT I knew almost nothing about table extensions, so I called in Charles Laporte to hack the feature with me on camera. https://just-tim.com/posts/using-the-history-page-to-learn-queries-snowflake https://just-tim.com/posts/using-the-history-page-to-learn-queries-snowflake Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT I'm still learning Snowflake, so let me show you my trick: do it in the interface, then steal the SQL it writes for you. https://just-tim.com/posts/column-reordering-enhancements-for-prep-new-in-tableau-2022-2 https://just-tim.com/posts/column-reordering-enhancements-for-prep-new-in-tableau-2022-2 Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT Tableau Prep finally preserves the column order you set inside the product, but the sorting only sticks when you tell your output to create the table. https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-keynote-tableau-conference-2022-live-reaction-livestream https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-keynote-tableau-conference-2022-live-reaction-livestream Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT Andre and I react live as Tableau renames Online to Cloud, ships multi-site management, and leans hard into the Salesforce pitch. https://just-tim.com/posts/virtual-connections-new-in-tableau-2021-4 https://just-tim.com/posts/virtual-connections-new-in-tableau-2021-4 Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT Virtual connections are basically the dream connection you could possibly create with Tableau. https://just-tim.com/posts/load-data-into-snowflake-using-a-sql-statement https://just-tim.com/posts/load-data-into-snowflake-using-a-sql-statement Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT Before I could demo row level security in Tableau, I had to get the sample data into Snowflake from scratch using nothing but a SQL statement. https://just-tim.com/posts/data-freshness-policies-in-tableau-server-online-new-in-tableau-2021-3 https://just-tim.com/posts/data-freshness-policies-in-tableau-server-online-new-in-tableau-2021-3 Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT Tableau 2021.3 finally lets you dictate exactly how fresh your live-connection data needs to be. https://just-tim.com/posts/getting-started-with-snowflake-pt-4-time-travel-security-and-data-shares https://just-tim.com/posts/getting-started-with-snowflake-pt-4-time-travel-security-and-data-shares Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT Snowflake makes it easy - that should be a T-shirt - and here's how time travel, security and data shares prove it. https://just-tim.com/posts/getting-started-with-snowflake-pt-3-running-queries-and-using-json https://just-tim.com/posts/getting-started-with-snowflake-pt-3-running-queries-and-using-json Sun, 16 May 2021 19:00:18 GMT Re-run the exact same query and it comes back in 65 milliseconds for free, because Snowflake's cache already has the answer. https://just-tim.com/posts/getting-started-with-the-snowflake-pt-2-loading-data https://just-tim.com/posts/getting-started-with-the-snowflake-pt-2-loading-data Sun, 09 May 2021 20:00:14 GMT I work through Snowflake's official lab to load 61 million rows of CityBike data — stage, file format, COPY INTO and all. https://just-tim.com/posts/default-snowflake-virtual-warehouse-support-new-in-tableau-2021-1 https://just-tim.com/posts/default-snowflake-virtual-warehouse-support-new-in-tableau-2021-1 Sat, 03 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT There's no need to specify a warehouse when you connect to Snowflake https://just-tim.com/posts/getting-started-with-the-snowflake-pt-1--trial-and-connecting-tableau https://just-tim.com/posts/getting-started-with-the-snowflake-pt-1--trial-and-connecting-tableau Wed, 24 Mar 2021 21:43:08 GMT I've never touched a database outside Tableau, so come bumble through Snowflake with me from the very first trial sign-up. https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-20211-preview-ahead-of-release https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-20211-preview-ahead-of-release Tue, 09 Mar 2021 10:16:51 GMT Honestly, this is shaping up to be the Salesforce release, but web authoring on Tableau Public is the feature people are sleeping on. https://just-tim.com/posts/write-to-database-prep-builder https://just-tim.com/posts/write-to-database-prep-builder Thu, 20 Aug 2020 22:12:24 GMT Tableau Prep can finally write straight back to a database — here's the full feature, warts and all.