OSI

Trick Or Schema

by michael | Nov 6, 2025 | Blog

Legacy databases like Microsoft Access and FoxPro may seem harmless on the surface — but beneath those friendly forms and DBF files lurks a Halloween-worthy menace: schema drift. When structure changes upstream, Snowflake doesn’t scream — it just silently rejects,...

Embracing Open Semantic Interchange: How Alice Makes Legacy Data OSI-Ready

by michael | Sep 25, 2025 | Blog

Snowflake has just formalized what many data teams have quietly hoped for: a vendor-agnostic, semantic model standard via their Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) initiative. Snowflake The idea is straightforward yet ambitious — establish a shared, consistent “language”...