I will always be grateful to HCSC, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Texas, and New Mexico for sponsoring my company to build customized software back in 2002, which gave me the start I needed.

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Let me once again explain the rules. Snowflake rules when it comes to unstructured data. Tera-Tom Coffing, Teradata and Snowflake guru, will explain Snowflake unstructured data with great structure. Read the last blog of this series here.

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Snowflake PDF is a masterpiece by Tom Coffing and Dave Cook. Tom Coffing is considered the best technical book author in the world. Tom has written over 75 books on the architecture and SQL of all major database platforms. The Snowflake book is possibly his best work, and Tom’s co-author Dave Cook is the mastermind…

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Tom Coffing will show off the Nexus Desktops coordinating with the Nexus Server to join data across platforms with a single click of the mouse.

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Are you migrating thousands of tables to the cloud? Do you want business users to be able to move data between any two systems? Can you imagine giving users the ability to join tables across disparate platforms?

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  Teradata’s QueryGrid product is a brilliant concept that connects Teradata systems to multiple data sources for cross-system functionality.  However, QueryGrid does not compare with CoffingDW’s high-speed Nexus Server. Teradata is a proprietary database, but Nexus combines all database platforms. Teradata broke barriers within the database world by allowing users to join data across several…

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Virtualization allows users with no technical expertise to join data across all on-premises and cloud databases.  Users can also move data from any two systems and ETL teams can migrate thousands of tables.  Having a database like Yellowbrick, where billion-row tables can return an answer set in subsecond times, encryption software from Soterosoft to guarantee the security of sensitive data, and the Nexus Server to convert and migrate between systems is the perfect package.

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Data virtualization allows users to move or join data across database platforms with no technical experience.  Why spend millions moving data when your users can join data across platforms? Data virtualization is the best way to see your data in action, and thus, it has become an important tool for various business lines to get the insights their teams need. Join us on Thursday, January 21st, at 10:00 PST (1:00 EST) for a 20-minute webinar to hear from Yellowbrick, along with two solution partners, Nexus and Soterosoft, to learn how to build a virtualization roadmap.

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I have never seen analytic queries perform faster than on a Yellowbrick Data Warehouse. Today, I will begin a series on how to tune a Yellowbrick system. Today, I will start with one of the most critical fundamentals for tuning any parallel processing system, including Yellowbrick.

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The question of the day should be Yellowbrick or Snowflake. As the great playwright William Shakespeare once penned, “To be or not to be, that is the question?” If Shakespeare were alive today, the real question would be, “To be or not to be competitive.”

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Today you will witness moving and joining data across every platform in your enterprise faster than magic. The Nexus Desktop with a Nexus Server puts the business user on the same playing field as the data scientist. Combine Nexus with Yellowbrick and you get the greatest hybrid-cloud strategy on today’s market. Watch a billion-row table query in one second. Watch joins across all platforms, and watch how easy everyone from the business user to the ETL teams migrate with a button click.

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While Yellowbrick Data Warehouse offers the #1 Price/Performance in the industry, Coffing Data Warehousing’s Nexus products make it quick and easy to move millions of rows out of Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Snowflake, or Redshift, and join and query multiple tables across different systems at blistering speeds. Join us on Thursday, November 12 where our…

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I can teach you Yellowbrick analytics!  I have never seen analytics perform faster than on Yellowbrick.  Today we are going to learn about First_Value.  This analytic seems too simple at first, but I will show you how to use First_Value to look for trends. First_Value will display the first value of a specific column residing…

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I can teach you Yellowbrick analytics! I have never seen a database do analytics faster than Yellowbrick. Last week we taught you Lead, and this week we are teaching you Lag.

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Federated queries are a combination of hardware and software working together like dance partners that make it an art.  A federated query joins tables together from different systems.  Federated queries are the definition of accessing any data, at any time, anywhere. 

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The Ides of March is best known as the date on which Julius Caesar was assassinated at the Theatre of Pompey by members of the Senate in 44 BC. I think that 2020 is the year that we make the Ides of March a good thing. During March, I am going to allow you to migrate and move any amount of data to Snowflake for FREE. 

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