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Only one query tool is so sophisticated that a business user with no technical knowledge can migrate 20 different database platforms to Snowflake or between any two database systems. You are about to see a video of how business users are migrating data to Snowflake with the click of a button in the blink of…

Survival is not the norm; it’s the exception. Humans have evolved more than any other species on Earth. Plants, insects, fish, and other mammals are beautiful, but humans are the dominating force. Nothing evolves faster in today’s world than business because of the power of data and analytics. A company’s survival and the survival of…

Thomas Edison spent 10,000 hours testing to build one of the great inventions of all time, the electric lightbulb. As a kid, I dreamed of becoming Thomas Edison, not Thomas Coffing, but I have spent what seems like 1,000,000 hours attempting to get all databases to integrate seamlessly. It took Thomas Edison two years to…

Johnny Cash on Snowflake Cache saving Cash I hear the train a comingIt’s coming round the bendMy second Snowflake queryFlies faster than a wrenI’m stuck in Snowflake Heavenand time travel keeps rolling backwhen I hear that whistleblowingI know my Cache saves Cash The Snowflake architecture consists of cloud services, virtual warehouses, and data storage. Cloud…

You will love this blog because date functions and formatting differ dramatically between databases, but I have covered that with brilliant examples and clear and concise explanations below. All of these examples have come from my books and training classes. Please do me a favor and tell your training coordinator that you know the best…

There is no such thing as a free lunch, but there is free analytics! If you break down an analytic, it is nothing more than math running against a data set. Most vendors have the same fundamental analytics, but each has a few analytics that only they provide. That is when the idea hit me…

In a recent study, health researchers at the University of Michigan found that eating a single hot dog could take 36 minutes off your life. Although it is a tough call, having your team use Teradata Studio as the primary query tool could be a better choice; however, a hot dog might leave a better…

I have a customer who is a significant player in the insurance business who uses the Nexus and Nexus Server to migrate data from Teradata, Oracle, and Netezza to Amazon Redshift and Snowflake. Here is a question they asked me recently. Good morning Tom, Quick question.  I have a power user (a very influential power…

Imagine Migrating Your Legacy Database to a Modern Database in a manner of minutes or hours versus Months or Years. Reunite your data and free yourself from the chains of legacy vendors!