Contexte : Mon client travail dans le domaine des échanges de marchandises et ressources primaires et son métier repose sur l’utilisation de différents outils informatiques pour faire ses affaires. Dans le but de consolider ses données afin de pouvoir générer des rapports d’activités globaux, dbi-Services a été sollicité pour réaliser un Data Warehouse (DWH) et d’aider à la mise en…
The Microsoft data platform is evolving The third day began with the Keynote help by Rohan Kumar the Corporate Vice President of Azure Data by Microsoft The main message was “Hybrid data platform is the way for the future” and Microsoft is working in this direction. The use of AI and analytic to transform the customer business is also a…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post, tribute to transportable tablespaces (TTS), I said that TTS is also used to move data quickly from operational database to a datawarehouse ODS. For sure, you don’t transport directly from the production database because TTS requires that the tablespace is read only. But you can transport from a snapshot standby. Both features…
For every client we do projects for there usually are database systems from various vendors. In most places you at least find some Oracle and MS SQL Server databases. Probably somewhere there are even some MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL instance running. The Oracle and MS SQL Server stuff almost always is there because vendors require it. For MySQL/MariaDB the common use…
In this blog post, let’s talk about a weird situation where I faced a nonclustered columnstore issue with SQL Server 2012. Let’s say we are in the same context than this previous blog post here. So as a reminder, we decided to benefit from the columnstore index feature after installing a new SQL Server 2012 based infrastructure at my customer…
Few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to give a session about the clustered columnstore index feature (CCI) at our In-Memory event dedicated to In-Memory technologies for Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and SAP HANA. During our session, I explained the improvement made by Microsoft on SQL Server 2014 with the introduction of new clustered columnstore index (CCI). The CCI includes…
The review of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms has revealed a new challenger that could become one of the leader of this market: Birst – an interesting “all-in-one” BI solution. Birst is an american company based in the Silicon Valley near San Francisco. Its SaaS (Software as a Service) BI solution mixes simplicity and power.…
