The “data” part of the terms “data lake,” “data warehouse,” and “database” is easy enough to understand. Data are everywhere, and the bits need to be kept somewhere. But should ...

Databases control workloads to create and update themselves, querying the data they contain and running applications there. What is a data warehouse? It is a unified repository that assembles data ...

The key factors in building an effective data warehouse include defining the information that is critical to the organization and identifying the sources of the information. A database is designed ...

Inside any database management system (DBMS), one can designate a specific data item as "null." The null represents the "existence" of a non-value, the nonexistence of a value, or…nothing. This sounds ...

A virtualization platform lets existing applications run natively on the cloud data warehouse. No or only minimal changes of SQL are required. So, how does database virtualization take the sting ...

It’s felt obvious for some time that, as an industry, we’ve been trying to shove square data warehousing tools into round, data-driven application holes. But it wasn’t until I read ...

Snowflake Inc. said today it’s buying a database startup called Crunchy Data Solutions Inc. in a $250 million deal that’s expected to close imminently, bolstering its agentic artificial intelligence ...

There are multiple processes to analyze, several teams involved, and generally a huge amount of data flowing in and through the warehouse at all times. All of this activity will by necessity be ...