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What does that checkbox do? (Redshift Encryption)

**EDIT**     I don’t normally go back and edit things in a prior post… but… in this case the additional link to Werner Vogels blog  that came out after I wrote this is worthwhile to the topic at hand.           **EDIT** As I alluded to in the prior post, I have been busy…   I have actually been busy […]

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“Big Data” with Amazon Redshift – Intro

If you have been following along on my blog, you have seen the various technical and other ramblings for my recent R&D efforts around “Big Data”.  A little while ago I wrote about giving Amazon a try which I still believe is true… and long those lines, am now giving Amazon Redshift (their new entry […]

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Hadoop/Hive a few lessons learned

It has been a few days since the last set of posts, and quite honestly did not want to leave it hanging even this long, so I wanted to give a brief update to (at least help) cut-off some of the frustrations I have faced for those of you attempting the same path through the […]

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Amazon – Give it a try

A little more than a week ago Amazon made some announcements, near and dear to my heart, warehousing.  Only this time, as you would expect from Amazon, it is moving to the cloud… with the announcement of their “Redshift” product.  I have been intrigued by some of the advantages that cloud computing provides, however, from […]

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