Engine Works

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

Big Data

Database

3 min to read

Smarter InDB with the Text Input Tool

Learn a workaround for avoiding error messages and how to improve the performance of InDB tools.

4 min to read

Alteryx Analytics Cloud on Azure

This blog walks through Alteryx Analytics Cloud deployed on Azure and discusses the major integrations.

3 min to read

The Alteryx Analytics Cloud Platform With Databricks

How to integrate Alteryx Analytics Cloud and Databricks to leverage Databricks data and processing

5 min to read

Passing Data Between Designer Desktop & AACP Using S3

Are you a Designer Desktop user who wants to be able to use data created in a workflow in Alteryx Analytics Cloud Products?

Big Data

Database

3 min to read

The Ins and Outs of In-DB: Don’t Make Your Data Leave the La...

Welcome back to the Ins and Outs of In-DB! In this post we’re focusing on how you can use Alteryx in-database (in-DB) tools with Databricks.

Alteryx Designer

7 min to read

Alteryx Workflow Performance: The Network Effect

Understand the impact the network makes on your workflow performance

Database

4 min to read

Using the Python Tool to Import Data via API

Ever wondered how you can use the Python tool to import data into a database and turn that tool into a Macro that allows for dynamic variables to allow for reusing it with ease? Th...

Big Data

Database

4 min to read

Spatial Methods InDB with Snowflake

This blog follows the previous one on how to ulitise spatial data in Snowflake. We will use the in-DB tools, so we can really harness the power of your databases and extract the de...

Big Data

3 min to read

Bulk Uploading Spatial Data into Snowflake

If you have caught my previous blog post on bulk uploading data into Snowflake with speed, then you know I left you a little promise to share with you how to bulk upload spatial da...

Big Data

3 min to read

The Ins and Outs of In-DB: Do Something Awe-Inspiring with A...

Today I’m hyping up AWS, because it lives up to the hype: AWS makes it easier to do big – dare I say, awe-inspiring – things with Alteryx.

Best Practices

6 min to read

Alteryx + Snowflake = Mind-blown Speeds!

Are your UPSERTs into Snowflake using the Output tool taking too long? This blog shares with you all how you can utilise what Snowflake provides and what Alteryx provides to give y...

Best Practices

3 min to read

The Ins and Outs of In-Database, Starting with Snowflake

Sometimes it pays to be pushy. By “pushy” in this case I mean pushdown optimization, which is admittedly less catchy but still very cool.

Database

Python

4 min to read

Define Pythonic Snowflake Functions for Use in Alteryx

You can pursue nearly any kind of analysis at scale with the low-code ease of Alteryx and the high performance of Snowflake. Define custom analytic building blocks in Alteryx that...

Database

7 min to read

JDBC Connections in Alteryx

So you find yourself trying to connect to data that doesn’t have an ODBC driver available, or the ODBC driver is not particularly easy to use. What can you do?

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

How to Access Snowflake in Your Hosted Designer Trial

If you’re excited to try out an Alteryx Designer hosted trial with your existing Snowflake instance, follow the instructions in this article.

Database

4 min to read

Dremio, will it Alteryx?

As we enter this holiday season, grab a cup of hot chocolate, curl up by the fire, and let's find out, Dremio, will it Alteryx?

Best Practices

5 min to read

Hadoop Performance Considerations

Alteryx can work with data in Hadoop in multiple ways, including HDFS, Hive, Impala, and Spark. Many of these offer multiple configuration options. The goal of this article is to p...