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Teradata AWS Access How To Guide
Teradata AWS Access It was previously explained by ourselves here at VLDB how to setup a Teradata MPP (multi-node) system on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Well, now we’re back to offer a simple...
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Is Hadoop Failing?
‘Hadoop Is Failing’ Article A recent LinkedIn post linking to an Innovation Enterprise article entitled ‘Hadoop Is Failing’ certainly got our attention, as you might expect. Apart from disagreeing with...
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Xmas Wish List
All We Want For Christmas It’s that time of year…yes Christmas (Xmas for short), most definitely not <yuck>’holidays'</yuck>. There’s far too much chocolate in the VLDB office as you might...
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Teradata Setup on AWS
Teradata AWS Setup As previously mentioned, Teradata MPP (multi-node) setup on AWS is a tad more involved than the previous SMP (single node) setup. Well, as we’re kind-hearted folks here at VLDB, we...
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Teradata MPP on AWS
Multi-node Teradata on AWS Teradata’s eponymous database became available on AWS in Q116 as a single node (SMP) only offering, as detailed in a previous VLDB blog post: Teradata on AWS – Configurations...
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Using Joins Across Multiple Tables
Joins When dealing with large data sets, it’s important to ensure that the data can be accessed correctly. Failure to address this issue early on in database development can lead to problems when later...
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Database Benchmarking
TPC Database Benchmarks As most readers of data warehouse related blogs will no doubt know, the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) define database benchmarks to allow comparisons to be...
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An Introduction to Primary Indexes and Distribution Keys
It’s All About Data Distribution. As experts in Massively Parallel Processing (MPP), here at VLDB Solutions we talk regularly about ‘Primary Indexes’ (PI) or ‘Distribution Keys’ (DK). They are...
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Readings in Database Systems 5th Edition
Readings in Database Systems Also known as the ‘Red Book‘, Readings in Database Systems has been published since 1988. The 5th edition was published in 2015 after a 10 year hiatus. Quite ironic really...
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Google Cloud Platform Review: Head In The Clouds
Google Cloud Platform Review: Head In The Clouds Over the last decade, cloud computing services have sky rocketed as people push them to their limits and beyond to find more, advantageous uses for...
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Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Conference 2016
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Conference 2016 A few weeks ago now VLDB attended Google Global Cloud Conference at Pier 48, overlooking the Giant’s ball park, in San Francisco. The user conference was a...
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Teradata on AWS – Configurations & Pricing
Teradata on AWS The availability of Teradata’s eponymous database on both Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure was announced in late 2015 for availability in Q1 2016. Lo and behold, the Teradata DBMS was...
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Privacy and the Balancing Act of Big Data
Big Data And Privacy Hmm, privacy, where to start? Over the long Easter weekend I met up with an old friend and his partner. They’ve lived in Spain for a couple of years now, and it’s a rare treat...
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Teradata & Cloud – Last Roll Of The Dice?
‘Happy New Year’ To You Too! The Christmas & New Year break (not ‘holidays’, ugh!) is a time for a bit of rest & relaxation away from work, eating & drinking too much, pretending to like...
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Teradata on AWS and Azure
Teradata on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure For those that missed the news, Teradata recently announced that the Teradata DBMS is to made available via the public cloud, initially on Amazon Web Services...
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Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
SQL Data Warehouse The promise of “An elastic data warehouse-as-a-service with enterprise-class features” really got my interest when it came up on a LinkedIn post recently. How could it not,...
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MPP in the Cloud
MPP & Cloud – Nothing New Under the Sun The ‘shared nothing‘ or ‘massively parallel processing‘ (MPP) computing architecture is hardly new. The likes of Teradata, Netezza and Pivotal Greenplum have...
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To Hadoop Or Not To Hadoop?
Is Hadoop Right For Everyone? Across many organisations we find ourselves answering the same questions around Hadoop technology. We understand that senior level executives read broad sheets, the...
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Data Projects ROI and VFM
After a fun-filled 2014 I find myself in a reflective mood. Last year brought new clients and technology partnerships, which made for a varied and enjoyable time. Yours truly personally spent more time...
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Talend ETL Comparison with Hand-Coded ETL or ELT
Talend ETL Versus Hand Coding Talend ETL is open-source data integration software which, with its impressive array of components to choose from, allows you to manipulate data from a wide variety of...
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