Author: Michael Taluc

Michael Taluc, Big Data Consultant and Solutions Architect at Pythian, details the process of vacuuming in overall Redshift Table Maintenance.

At Pythian, the DevOps, Big Data, and Data Science teams use Slack for our IM system. We’re a diverse group drawn to a wide range of technologies so there’s some interesting and valuable chatter about what folks are reading. Here…

  Sizing a database is one of the primary DBA functions no matter what the technology. Though Redshift is highly managed for us, we must still address this task. The first thing to note is that in sizing a cluster, we…

As with any database administration strategy, management of Redshift requires setting and revoking permissions.  When first setting up permissions, it is ideal to establish groups as the basic unit of user access.  This keeps us from having to manage hundreds…