Snowflake is a fully relational ANSI SQL data warehouse that was built from the ground up for the cloud. Its architecture separates compute from storage so that you can scale up and down on the fly, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once you've decided to implement a new data warehouse, or expand an existing one, you'll want to ensure that you choose the technology that's right for your organization. This can be challenging, as ...

Microsoft's upcoming SQL Server 2008 release includes several new features and enhancements that are extremely valuable in data warehousing and business intelligence systems — as those already ...

The "data" part of the terms "data lake," "data warehouse," and "database" is easy enough to understand. Data are everywhere, and the bits need to be kept somewhere. But should they be stored in a ...

For all its hype, big data is still just that — data. Its value will be tied to how well and how quickly your business exploits it. As many companies know all too well, today it takes too long for ...

Many organizations nowadays are struggling with finding the appropriate data stores for their data. Let’s zoom in on some key data structures to facilitate corporate decision making by means of ...