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1) create a table (and then query it) - seems very common 2) merge more into it (and then query it) - also seems very common 3) delete (a tiny bit) from it (and then query it) - al…

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> While performing the benchmarks, we noticed that the Snowflake pre-baked TPC-DS dataset had been recreated two days after our benchmark results were announced. An important part …

Yes, we did. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/stored-proced...

Nice answer.

Recommend checking who the account emails are configured to be sent to. Often they go to a finance person who may not understand the importance of some communications such as this.…

Redshift offers hard disk based nodes with huge amounts of storage at low cost for precisely the use case you mention. The performance of these is actually very good, especially wi…

We're very interested in trying AWS' new Database Migration Service to see if it provides a nice, automated way to get a mirror of the source into Redshift. https://aws.amazon.com/…

I do have experience with ETL tools. The dirty secret of ETL tools is that they are slow in the best case. In the worst case extremely, head meltingly, how-could-it-possibly-take-t…

We've struggled with the same issues. We also keep a "base" schema in Redshift as a close mirror to source systems (tweaked a little for distribution keys). In our case we control …