A fast, no-fuss data warehouse as a service, Snowflake scales dynamically to give you the performance you need exactly when you need it Data warehouses, also called enterprise data warehouses (EDW), ...

We recently looked at the idea of the data lake, so now it’s time to head downstream and look at data warehouses. We’ll define data warehouses, look at the data types they comprise, the storage they ...

The first generation of Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) was announced in 2015, and SQL DW "Gen 2" reached general availability in 2018. Today, at its Ignite confab on Orlando, Microsoft is ...

Hadoop has introduced a lot of agility into the world of analytics and data integration. Concepts such as schema on read and the radical flexibility of processing data stored in files have allowed ...

Snowflake is overvalued based on reverse DCF analysis, but long-term investors should see good returns due to its strong financials and business model. Snowflake offers a scalable, cloud-native data ...

For too many companies, the data warehouse remains an unfulfilled promise. The work that was started with data warehouses to create a living, clearly defined source of truth about what is happening in ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

Fresh from last week's Build developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft executives appeared at the company's first-ever Ignite conference in Chicago and provided more details about the company's ...

Essentially, a data warehouse is an analytic database, usually relational, that is created from two or more data sources, typically to store historical data, which may have a scale of petabytes. Data ...

The notion of running a data warehouse in the cloud was a pretty novel thing when Amazon Web Services launched its Redshift service in November of 2012. Most on-premises data warehouse (DW) platforms ...

A new Azure SQL Data Warehouse preview offered as a counter to Amazon's Redshift headed several data-related announcements at the opening of the Microsoft Build conference today. Also being announced ...