Teradata 6690 Announced
Our friends over at Teradata have just announced the new Teradata 6690: http://www.teradata.com/News-Releases/2012/New-Teradata-Platform-Reshapes-Business-Intelligence-Industry/ I’m not convinced it...
View ArticleTeradata Training Courses
VLDB Solutions are delighted to announce the following Teradata training courses available from Q2 2012: TD01 : Teradata Architecture + Teradata SQL (3 days) TD02 : Teradata Architecture + Teradata SQL...
View ArticleTeradata Centre of Excellence
Another piece of fine marketing material has just been released by the VLDB Solutions marketing machine to publicise our ‘Teradata Centre of Excellence’ service offering:...
View ArticleTeradata Indexes
Whilst at the Teradata Partners 2011 show last October we bought several copies of a book on Teradata indexes called ‘Teradata Database Index Essentials’, written by Alison Torres of Teradata, no less....
View ArticleCloudera Partnership
So, after 20 years of building applications on massively parallel processing (MPP) shared-nothing database architectures, we thought we’d better get in on this new fangled ‘big data’ bandwagon! As a...
View ArticleZDNet MPP and MapReduce Article
There’s an interesting article discussing the relationship between the ‘old skool’ MPP approach to big data, and the ‘new fangled’ MapReduce approach:...
View ArticleLies, Damned Lies and Statistics
Statistics collection on databases is a topic that many will feel has been done to death. Although this is true, there still seems to be a lot of misunderstanding as to the benefit, or otherwise, that...
View ArticleBig Data Letter in Wired Magazine
Never one to shy away from providing a comment or two, or three, yours truly managed to get a letter printed in the September edition of Wired UK magazine. The subject, predictably, was ‘big data’....
View ArticleThere’s Nowt New Under t’Sun…or is there?
So, there we were minding our own business the other day…when an update on LinkedIn caught our attention (no, really!). Said update referred to a blog post by our good friend Martin Willcox at...
View ArticleTeradata User Group (TUG) – London, 14th November (1121114)
Wednesday’s Teradata User Group (TUG) in London felt a bit like a reunion for anyone who’s ever worked at Lloyds in Manchester. They were out in droves – you know who you are – and it was great to...
View ArticleVLDB Digital
So, we’ve survived a seemingly endless round of office parties, Xmas and New Year. Just. Festive celebrations then gave way to birthdays for our very own Dave Agnew and Paul Johnson. Last week’s...
View ArticleTeradata Top 10 Tips #1
A few of us Teradata types at VLDB were recently bemoaning the fact that we see the same poor behaviours year after year, decade after decade, site after site. This is partly an education issue, and...
View ArticleAmazon Redshift Initial Thoughts
As reported on El Reg and elsewhere, Amazon announced the general availability of ‘Redshift’ a few days ago: http://aws.amazon.com/redshift/ What is Amazon Redshift then? Redshift is a licensed version...
View ArticleTeradata Top 10 Tips #2
#2 – Keep It Simple We all know that Teradata SQL is easy to write, right? Sadly, bad SQL is even easier to write. By ‘bad’ SQL we typically mean SQL that generates an inefficient query plan. No matter...
View ArticleMy Name’s Bond, James Bond…or RainStor
So, what’s the connection between Rainstor in the staid world of data management and Her Majesty’s finest secret agent? Allow us to explain, if you will. It all started at last year’s Teradata EMEA...
View ArticleReally Neat SQL (RNSQL)
We all now massively parallel processing (MPP) databases like nothing more than plain old batch SQL scripts to chew on, right? Where would we be without clients like Teradata BTEQ, Netezza nzsql or...
View ArticleTeradata Data Modelling
An excellent session covering Teradata data modelling was delivered by the main speaker at last week’s Teradata CTO roadshow in London – perhaps unsurprisingly, the Teradata CTO – Stephen Brobst. A...
View ArticleTeradata Aster
Yours truly spent a couple of hours recently at Teradata‘s Manchester office with Vic Winch, Direcor of Aster COE, EMEA. Vic kindly offered to bring VLDB up to speed on all things Aster. We love a good...
View ArticlePivotal HD 1.0 Now Shipping
Pivotal HD 1.0 Now Shipping Pivotal announced yesterday that Pivotal HD 1.0 is now shipping. You can read all about it here on El Reg. For those of you wondering who Pivotal are, let’s wind back a...
View ArticleMicrosoft to Buy Nokia Mobile Phone Division
Microsoft to Buy Nokia Mobile Phone Division Some might say it was inevitable, and we would agree, but Microsoft has finally plonked down a big bag of cash (£4.6bn actually ) to buy Nokia‘s mobile...
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