Events over the past two years have highlighted the many complexities and unknown dependencies in global supply chains. As different countries shut down, re-opened and shut down again, it caused a cascading effect on the manufacturing of complex semiconductors, consumer…

Here we go again Hello, and welcome to this second part of my “Replicating MySQL to Snowflake” series. If you landed here from a web search and missed part one, you can take a look here: part one. What’s up?…

There’s a lot of buzz around consolidation nowadays, as well as some fear of change. You may want to consolidate your SQL Server environments to save on maintenance and license costs, and also potentially on hardware and the size of…

A few months ago, Microsoft revealed that they were looking into adding a capability of querying Cosmos Db data through Spark and this immediately got me thinking into the new scenarios this would enable. The most ambitious is the capability…

Data is hard. Its always been hard, and it’s not getting easier. We always have more of it, there are more sources to integrate, it changes all the time, the quality is questionable, and the business wants it all right…

In light of the continued spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) globally, we want to let our clients know how Pythian is prepared to continue providing the high standard of service you’ve come to expect. Our leadership team has developed an action…

The concept of good governance is key to any high functioning society and economy. It helps establish and maintain trust between constituents and their representatives, along with setting the stage for people and organizations to operate within a well-defined framework…

We have all seen it before.  You finally get access to new data sources and want to extract insight from that data. You open your favorite reporting or data visualization tool, connect and start updating the tool’s semantic layer. The…

As your data estate ramps up to a data empire, more and more of your users are vying for––and expecting––better access to this wealth of internal and external information. That’s why finding the right home for your data is so…

Introduction   The best definition you going to find for data is that data is the new oil in today’s world. Starting from that, we can define a new horizon and a new way of looking at how we treat…