# Accessing Postgres Database for Analytics Pipeline

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**Category:** Data & reporting\
**Tags:** data-explorer, analytics\
**Created:** [May 30, 2024, 11:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-postgres-database-for-analytics-pipeline/310045 "2024-05-30T23:44:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![mqmenchaca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@mqmenchaca](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mqmenchaca)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-postgres-database-for-analytics-pipeline/310045/3 "2024-05-31T17:47:29Z")

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This tracks. Probably going to try and go the direct route (my option 1). Storage is cheap and dumping out the whole DB to Snowflake now so we can define all of our analytics queries in one repo feels like a lot less overhead than defining some queries in [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) for a set of analytics requests, then they ask for more so we define another set, and onwards…

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