User Defined Functions for Amazon Redshift

This is great - Redshift consistently comes out with new features that users appreciate, one of the reasons it's becoming the de facto standard for data warehouses.

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Hi, Periscope co-founder here. We've built some helpful UDFs and welcome contributions: https://github.com/PeriscopeData/redshift-udfs

This opens up a lot of possibilities. Hopefully they add support for more programming languages soon.