Category: database
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Reasons To Choose Greenplum
Our job at VLDB is to ‘get stuff done’. As firm believers in SQL-powered scalable data platforms, we’ve been using Greenplum for nearly 15 years. It has been our default data platform for client engagements for most of that time. We’re very well positioned to explain why we put our faith in Greenplum, so here…
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VLDB – We’ve Moved! Returning To Our Founder’s Roots
Myself and the rest of the Liverpool-based members of VLDB recently moved offices. This move represents a 30-year journey back to where I started. Allow me to explain… ‘Back in the day’ there were two main employers in Old Hall St, the centre of Liverpool’s CBD: Royal Insurance (‘The Royal’) and Littlewoods. The Royal was…
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30 Years In I.T. …You’d get Less for Murder!
A few weeks ago marked 30 years since yours truly started out as a graduate IT trainee at Royal Insurance (now RSA) in 1988. Back then, there were no PCs, just dumb terminals; no mobile phones, just landlines; no email, no internet. But the biggest shock of all: other people could smoke at your desk!…
