Episode 45: Show Notes Our good friend Warner Chaves joins us again today on the show, this time to discuss some favorite updates from the Microsoft Ignite 2020 virtual conference. We start out hearing some pros and cons of the…

Episode 44: Show Notes Snowflake is the only data platform built for the cloud for all your data and all your users. Today we have Kent Graziano, Chief Technology Evangelist at Snowflake, here on the show to discuss how this…

In the midst of the digital transformation, more businesses than ever before are leveraging their data and cloud computing platforms to shift how they operate in and keep up with the rapidly changing environment. In order to get the most…

If you work with Data Guard, the lag between the primary and standby database is an informative but difficult metric to measure. I’ve encountered some “solutions” that use the COMPLETION_TIME in (G)V$ARCHIVED_LOG for the standby destination as the time of…

In this blog post, I would like to share some options that you can consider to model your cloud DW for better query performance.  With a traditional EDW, we would either come up a STAR, Snowflake or similar schemas. These…