Coarse-grained Cloud Economics

Let’s further discuss DW economics in the cloud. Imagine that DW#2 in Figure 1 supports queries from your corporate finance … More

A Segue from ETL to DB

This is a short post to segue to point where I’ve been headed all along. Figure 1 recasts the picture … More

The last post (here) demonstrated how scalability in the cloud provides the ability to reduce runtimes from days or hours … More

I’m riffing on database design and modeling in an agile methodology. In the previous post here I suggested that we … More

One of the side-effects of the little cheat posted here is that, if we are going to design early we … More

In this post I am going to suggest doing a little design a little upfront and violating the purity of … More

Here is a quick review of tens years of data warehouse database competition… and a peek ahead… Maybe ten years … More

Last year two associates from Greenplum suggested that I read a very smart academic paper titled “Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query … More

Today I am going to focus on a topic that I’ve suggested previously without the right emphasis: the new database … More

This is the 3rd and final example of a vendor admitting, without admitting, to an architectural limitation. The first two … More