Engine Works

Under the hood of Alteryx: tips, tricks and how-tos.

Common Use Case

Saving Private Snippet*

Have you ever wanted to build pieces of a report, and then save them somewhere for later use? Perhaps you have a boilerplate portion of a report, and

Common Use Case

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Fun with the Table Reporting Tool

The new reporting tools provide great flexibility in generating a report. The majority of reports I create generally contain tables that have static c

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Smoothing out sparse data

Have you ever had the problem where your data has lots of irregular holes, but that missing data is actually important to you? The Generate Rows tool

Apps and Macros

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Got Pain? Try a holistic approach... Macros

Have you ever pondered how we QA Alteryx? With over 70 processing tools that support hundreds of functions, just about any file type, field types, and

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Alteryx is Fun

I've had a bunch of customers tell me how much fun they think Alteryx is to use. One even had her coworkers describe it as "that cartoon program." Obv

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Ad-Hoc Spatial Data Analysis

I recall this day in school where the professor was drilling into our heads "select … from … where … Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before?" Oh wait

Alteryx Designer

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Resource Utilization

Frequently asked question: Why is my computer so slow when I run Alteryx?The short answer is that Alteryx is designed to use all the resources it poss

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Small to Big Fuzzy Matching

I was working with a client who has a contact database with 500 million records. Once a month or so they have a smaller dataset to add to their growin

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Calgary Cooled My Heels

As a recovering DBA I still reach into my bag of tricks when having to do low level data movement. It's a habit hard won, but I'm breaking it. And Ned