Here are three reasons why Snowflake is changing the Cloud computing world. Every single SQL statement I have ever seen from every other database vendor works on Snowflake.  I have never seen anything like that in the 30-years of teaching SQL. Why is this nearly impossible feat important?  Companies can instantly migrate data to Snowflake…

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A fortune 100 company had changed its on-premises strategy to the cloud and needed to move its on-premises systems to the AWS cloud.  It wanted to migrate its Netezza, Oracle, and Teradata systems to Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, MySQL, and Postgres. At the time, they decided that their best choice was to use Amazon’s Data Migration Services (DMS).  After finding that DMS was not reliable enough for this massive project, they began a Proof of Concept with the Nexus Pro desktop and Nexus Server combination.

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A large bank was consolidating on Teradata and needed Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2 users to move critical data to their Teradata sandbox.  We invented the Nexus multi-database tree, where you can see two systems trees side by side.  Users can click-and-drag to move a single-table or an entire database,  which creates the table(s) on the Teradata system.

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Teradata is taking all of the awards for Data Warehouse Analytics.  You should consider consolidating users on Teradata and use the platform for your major analytic jet engine.  With a few clicks of the mouse, my Nexus and NexusCore Server can make the migration to Teradata easy.

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  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. Why it had to go, I don’t know, they…

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