We dive into what an MPP Database is, how it works, and the strengths and weaknesses of Massively Parallel Processing.

We examine the history and capabilities of Redshift and Hadoop, and how they compare across price, performance, and ease of use.

We break down what these two databases are, why should you be using them, and how to sync your data from Amazon Aurora to Redshift quickly and easily and keep...

First up, we break down how to use the Redshift Create Table command as quickly and succinctly as possible, leaving out all the extra stuff you probably don’t need to...

SVV_TABLE_INFO is a Redshift systems table that shows information about user-defined tables (not other system tables) in a Redshift database. The table is only visible to superusers.

In order to list or show all of the tables in a Redshift database, you'll need to query the PG_TABLE_DEF systems table. An interesting thing to note is the PG_...

Redshift’s UNLOAD command is a great little tool that complements Redshift’s COPY command, by doing the exact reverse function. While COPY grabs data from an Amazon s3 bucket and puts...

In this article, I want to share some of the lessons learned in the hope that they are useful to you in your own engineering journey.