# \#geospatial

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## [Breaking a large query into parallelized partitioned queries](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/breaking-a-large-query-into-parallelized-partitioned-queries/4481)

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**Author:** [@nadelman](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/nadelman)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 15, 2022, 4:56am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/breaking-a-large-query-into-parallelized-partitioned-queries/4481 "2022-09-15T04:56:46Z")

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We have a long-running model that performs a complex set of geospatial comparisons to get point-to-point distances between every person in the US and a list of around 300K points of interest. We are using snowflake, and …