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Cloud Data Warehouse

Cloud data warehouses (DWs) enable organizations to store massive amounts of data across cloud servers and access them from anywhere...

Snowflake Certification

Snowflake is a data management platform that offers data management and data warehouse services with unique capabilities to handle data....

Qualitative Data

Qualitative data is any set of data, including text, images, and video, that expresses the subjective and interpretive qualities of...

Array

An array is a data structure in computer programming that organizes data. Arrays hold elements with the same data type,...

Petabyte

A petabyte is 1015 bytes of digital information. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB. It is a measure...

UID

A unique identifier (UID) is a character string, either numeric or alphanumeric, that is assigned to an individual item within...

Hekaton

The codename for a Microsoft project that will provide support for mixing in-memory database tables with more traditional on-disk tables...

Hybrid Database

A relational database system that supports both in-memory and on-disk storage. Hybrid databases are typically deployed to retain the high...

In-Memory Database

A database that uses a system’s main memory for data storage rather than the disk-based storage typically utilized by traditional...

Structured Data

Structured data refers to any data that resides in a fixed field within a record or file. This includes data...

Unstructured Data

The phrase unstructured data usually refers to information that doesn’t reside in a traditional row-column database. As you might expect,...

Gibbs Effect

An MPEG compression artifact that blurs the outline of sharp objects. The Gibbs Effect is commonly seen in end-video credits...