Is the data warehouse appliance dead, or is that just a corny play on REM lyrics?
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What On Earth is MPP? In computing, massively parallel refers to the use of a large number of processors (or separate computers) to perform a set of coordinated computations in parallel (simultaneously). Source: Wikipedia . Teradata & MPP Beginnings Once upon a time, in a land far, far away…well, OK, California in the late 1970’s/early…
About 10 years ago, around 2003/04, we started to see the real world adoption of the ‘data warehouse appliance’, specifically the Netezza appliance. The Netezza co-founder and CTO, Foster Hinshaw, is credited with being the ‘father of the data warehouse appliance’. The world was seemingly going appliance crazy back then. The data warehouse appliance concept,…
So you think you know about Teradata spool?
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 strong ‘second string’ consisted of none other than our friends Martin Willcox and James Mesney of Teradata UK. It was good to catch up…
Teradata Tips – The Query Optimizer Likes Simple SQL This is the second of our ‘Teradata tips’ series. Enjoy! We all know that Teradata SQL is easy to write, right? Sadly, bad SQL is even easier to write. By ‘bad’ SQL we mean SQL that generates an inefficient query plan. No matter how we submit…
So you think you know about the Teradata primary index (PI)?
Did you attend the Teradata User Group (TUG) in London?