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 […]
SQL Query Optimisers
So you think you know about SQL query optimisers?
Learning SQL ‘Back In The Day’
Wanna know how we learned SQL in the late ‘80s?
Understand SQL Query Plans
So you think you understand SQL query plans?
Make SQL Your Data Friend
Is SQL your best data friend?
Cloud Vendors Must Kill Teradata
Why must cloud vendors ‘kill Teradata’?
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 […]
Analytic Maturity Models ML & AI
Can analytic AI & ML models be mature?
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! […]