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Every database vendor works night and day to build the best database, and each believes you should store all your data on their system. There isn’t a data warehouse in the world capable of holding all your current and future data while handling queries from all users. Which database vendor convinced you that their system…

I was teaching Teradata in Africa for the third time. As I put up the first slide, a previous student raised their hand and asked, “Where is the slide of the Tera-Tom Parallel Processing laundry mat.” I said, “Each time I put out a new book or course, I change things.” The student emphatically stated,…

Yesterday – My Netezza troubles seemed so far away. Since IBM bought them now, they’re here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, I’m not half the man I used to be. Why can’t I migrate off so easily? Oh, I believe in yesterday. Not only can you migrate off of Netezza in a…

The most disruptive computer technology ever built was not from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Teradata, Amazon, or Snowflake. Instead, it comes from a small company named Coffing Data Warehousing, founded in 1994 by Tom Coffing, based in Middletown, Ohio. Today you will witness a 30-table join across 30 systems in our quest to revolutionize the computer…

Big data used to be about getting the number one database, but today’s computing is about getting all databases to come together as one. If your company was late to adopt to the cloud, you could make that time up immediately by using the most advanced software the world has ever seen. For the first…

Snowflake and Databricks, two brilliant companies with different approaches, have been catalysts for paradigm shifts for cloud data – and many experts believe they will establish the next great rivalry in tech. I am excited to announce that Coffing Data Warehousing is adding Databricks to the Nexus software family. Our largest insurance customer has been…

The Art of War is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu and remains the most influential book in East Asian warfare and Western cultures. The Art of War on Data comes from the greatest software ever built, Nexus.

Why would Teradata charge a customer $20,000,000.00 to buy an on-premises Teradata system, then tack on another $2,000,000.00 for professional services, then charge over six figures for education, and then provide a free query tool for everyone to use? Is it possible that Teradata is giving away Teradata Studio to show their appreciation for the…

Every single day you are not using the Nexus, you are getting further behind any competitor who does. You will see a video of Nexus doing a global search for specific column names across 25 relational database platforms. However, as the systems tree dynamically changes, you will soon realize that the tree is alive. The…

Twenty years ago, it became obvious to me that companies would one day be so overwhelmed with data that no single data warehouse could hold it all. This problem became even more disturbing because I witnessed how many database companies try to lock in a customer for life. I was equally shocked to learn that…

If someone told me I could master ordered analytics/window functions in 20 minutes, I would pinch myself to see if I was dreaming. Tom Coffing has written 85 books and taught over 1,000 classes because he is an incredible teacher with simple step-by-step explanations. Tom, better known as Tera-Tom, will teach you everything you want…

Nobody thought the four-minute mile would ever be achieved, but Roger Bannister shocked the world when he ran it on May 6, 1954, in a time of 3:59.4. His unachievable record only lasted 46 days! Records are made to be broken. We have performed a 30-table join across 30 systems in our quest to revolutionize…

Vertica and Nexus provide the perfect environment for integrating and joining any combination of data across all legacy and cloud systems in your enterprise, including the ability to migrate over 20 different database platforms to Vertica using Nexus, with the setup and execution taking only minutes. See how Vertica pioneering columnar database Coffing Data Warehousing’s…

I called the Nobel committee to nominate myself for the prize, and they asked me point blank, why on God’s green Earth would we consider your book for a Nobel Piece Prize? I told them the Netezza SQL book breaks down all the cool Netezza features, peace-by-peace. And it is a 600-page masterpeace with easy-to-understand…

I called the Nobel committee to nominate myself for the prize, and they asked me point blank, why on God’s green Earth would we consider your book for a Nobel Piece Prize? I told them the SQL Server T-SQL book breaks down all the cool SQL Server features, peace-by-peace. And it is an 865-page masterpeace…

I called the Nobel committee to nominate myself for the prize, and they asked me point blank, why on God’s green Earth would we consider your book for a Nobel Piece Prize? I told them the PostgreSQL book breaks down all the cool Postgres features, peace-by-peace. And it is a 392-page masterpeace with easy-to-understand examples…

I called the Nobel committee to nominate myself for the prize, and they asked me point blank, why on God’s green Earth would we consider your book for a Nobel Piece Prize? I told them the DB2 SQL book breaks down all the cool DB2 features, peace-by-peace. And it is a 542-page masterpeace with easy-to-understand…

I called the Nobel committee to nominate myself for the prize, and they asked me point blank, why on God’s green Earth would we consider your book for a Nobel Piece Prize? I told them the Oracle SQL book breaks down all the cool Oracle features, peace-by-peace. And it is a 542-page masterpeace with easy-to-understand…

I called the Nobel committee to nominate myself for the prize, and they asked me point blank, why on God’s green Earth would we consider your book for a Nobel Piece Prize? I told them the MySQL SQL book breaks down all the cool MySQL features, peace-by-peace. And it is a 417-page masterpeace with easy-to-understand…

I called the Nobel committee to nominate myself for the prize, and they asked me point blank, why on God’s green Earth would we consider your book for a Nobel Piece Prize? I told them the Yellowbrick Architecture and SQL book breaks down all the cool Yellowbrick features, peace-by-peace. And it is a 670-page masterpeace…