In the months since IBM closed its Netezza acquisition, the data warehouse appliance pioneer has been busy, if the announcements at this week’s Enzee are any indication. An enthusiastic crowd… more →
Merv Adrian's IT Market Strategywrote 3 days ago: New capabilities expand SharePlex beyond Oracle with dynamic data delivery to databases such as SQL … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Good post by Troy L. Coleman (thank you) – so there is no need anymore for the good old DBA ? … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: A very few times in person’s career, one comes across an opportunity that is just the right th … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: Magic 8 Ball (Photo credit: Wikipedia) If you missed the tweet… 2+ years ago I predicted here … more →
wrote 1 month ago: In the post here I listed the units of parallelism (UoP) applied by various products on a single nod … more →
wrote 1 month ago: 6 May… There is a summary of this post and on the comments here. - Rob 17 April… A sing … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Earlier this week IBM announced new technologies intended to help companies and governments tackle B … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I currently work on an ETL project that loads a large data warehouse for front end user reports. Oc … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Recently, I had to decide on a distribution key for a specific fact table in our data warehouse. Th … more →
wrote 2 months ago: In many of my posts I refer to the issues associated with building “extra” data structur … more →
wrote 3 months ago: The TwinFin Surf Board (Photo credit: tvanhoosear) Since my blogs tend to be in response to some sti … more →
wrote 3 months ago: If I were the Register I would have titled this: Raging Stuffed Elephant To Devour Two Warehouse Ven … more →
wrote 3 months ago: While Business Intelligence (BI) is fast becoming a top priority for most businesses, achieving Retu … more →
wrote 5 months ago: (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I posted a blog on the SAP site here that discussed the implications of mo … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Redshift: Data Warehousing at Scale in the Cloud http://wp.me/pwo1E-5js Wednesday, November 28, 2012 … more →
wrote 5 months ago: A few years ago I have a client that required migrating and re hosting a data warehouse from the Ora … more →
wrote 6 months ago: @henryccook made an interesting point regarding Netezza workload management this morning… He s … more →
wrote 6 months ago: For those who may have noticed, I should explain my long absence from this blog. For the better p … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Everyone gets excited by a new piece of hardware, but it is the software that enables the new machin … more →