How AI multiplies engineering productivity, and why cutting experience can erase the benefit Companies that understand AI will use it to multiply expertise, not eliminate it. The others will see only the dollar sign, replace experienced engineers wit...
Load isolation sounds like a feature that should improve concurrency. After all, it’s one of the primary reasons for enabling it: data should be loaded while applications and users continue to query the table without being unnecessarily disturbed by...
A data warehouse migration replaces the technology, not the workload. Workload management, physical design, predictability and governance all reappear in cloud architectures under new names — and AI agents, which have no office hours, are about to ch...
Teradata gives you more than one way to store the same data in less space, and they behave very differently once queries start reading it back. This guide brings together the compression material on this site: what multi-value and block level compres...
This guide collects the material on this site about how Teradata behaves underneath the SQL — what the database does when it is under pressure, how it protects and isolates data, and the operational details that only matter until the day they matter...
Most Teradata performance problems are designed in long before anyone writes the query. This guide collects the physical design material from this site — the data model, the staging and preparatory layers, partitioning choices, and the MAPS feature —...
The cheapest Teradata tuning available is almost never a new index. It is rewriting the query so the optimizer has less work to do and better information to do it with. This guide gathers the query-rewriting material from this site into one place: fu...
Almost every bad Teradata query plan traces back to one thing: the optimizer estimated the wrong number of rows. This guide collects everything on this site about statistics and cardinality estimation — what the optimizer does with the statistics you...
Rethinking Cloud Pricing in the Age of AI Part 3: AI, the Future of Cloud Pricing, and Business Outcomes AI Changes the Economics of Compute One of the strongest economic arguments supporting consumption-based pricing has historically been the elimin...
Artificial intelligence allows consulting and technology companies to complete many tasks with fewer employees. A senior consultant supported by AI can analyse requirements, generate code, prepare documentation, review test results, and create presen...