Solving the ‘Gaps and Islands Problem’ in SQL
Written By Paul Johnson, VLDB Founder & Technical Lead There I was perusing LinkedIn, about a week ago, when I came across a post by...
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Analytics Is A People Problem
So, You Want to Build an Analytics Capability? With the abundance of cloud platforms and pay-as-you-go tools, building an analytics capability may seem straightforward at...
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The day after the recent Teradata event I headed over to the other side of London to the aptly-named Big Data London event at Olympia....
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Teradata Possible 2024, London
It’s been quite some time since yours truly attended a Teradata event, especially as an invited guest. How nice of the Teradata folks. Previous trips...
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Exploring the Classic Texts on Data Warehousing – Rediscovering Bill Inmon
Written by Paul Johnson, Founder & CEO of VLDB. 'Read more' is probably my favourite piece of work-related advice (not that I get asked much)....
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SQL Query Splitting
An article by Nick Holt about ‘SQL query splitting’ caught my attention on LinkedIn recently. It’s a topic that’s dear to my heart. The notion...
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Creating Custom Azure Guest Configuration Policies for Windows
Written by Tom Johnson and Cal Grimes For obvious reasons, it is desirable for an organisation’s cloud estate to be kept secure. Azure Policy is...
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Greenplum Provisioning & Object Storage
Greenplum provisioning via Terraform & access to S3 data via PXF.
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How To Maintain MPP-Based Referential Integrity (RI)?
How should we maintain referential integrity in an MPP data warehouse?
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