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Posts Tagged ‘Teradata’

Why Does Data Warehousing Take So Long? Part 2

In my last post, I wrote about BI’s reputation for being a long drawn-out process. And of course, where the market sees a vacuum…  A plethora of products and processes exist to aid with “shortcutting” BI/DW development. So this time, I want to look some common factors at play when you use the various types […]

An Error Handling Approach in Datastage Project

In year of 2012 I was involved in a datastage ETL project to load data from external flat files, as well as Oracle CRM data source into Teradata data warehouse. Comparing to other ETL appliances, IBM Datastage offers much flexible stages, components to accommodate each type of data feed business requirement. I would like to […]

Teradata Temporal Feature in Data Warehouse Design

If you have read books or articles written by Ralph Kimball, you should know about basic components and process to complete a dimensional modeling for enterprise data warehouse (EDW). When an architect is designing on DW, he would have to think about the slowly change dimension (SCD) approach that will best suit the business need […]

Teradata Talks Enterprise Data Integration

Teradata has been long been known for its powerful data systems and drive to push benchmarks for large data volumes. In fact, in 1992 Teradata built a first of its kind system for Wal-Mart, capable of  handling 1 terabyte of data. One of the main advantages to routinely working with very large data sizes is the exposure to integration, data […]