Data Vault versus Database Vault

In the Oracle community, the terms “Data Vault” and “Database Vault” are often confused, although they have nothing to do with each other. A short clarification.

Multi-Version Load in Data Vault

One of the advantages of Data Vault are the easy load patterns that can be used to load hubs, links and satellites. They are well documented in several books about Data Vault. But what happens if you want to load multiple versions in one batch? In this blog post, I will write about multi-version loads into a satellite table.

Performance Comparison: Snowflake vs Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse

Which data warehouse cloud platform is faster: Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse or Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse? The short answer: it depends. For a more detailed answer, read this blog post.

About Data Warehouse Design Patterns and Lazy Programmers

I’m a lazy programmer! That was one important detail I learned from Roelant Vos in his training last week. But there were many other interesting topics. A personal summary of a 3-days class about Data Warehouse Design Patterns.

Data Vault Queries and Join Elimination

If you work with Data Vault for a data warehouse running in an Oracle database, I strongly recommend to use Oracle 12.2 or higher. Why that? Since Oracle 12c Release 2, join elimination works for more than one join column. This is essential for queries on a Data Vault schema.

Oracle 19c: Auto-List Partitioning HIGH_VALUE Bugs fixed

New features are one reason to upgrade to a new Oracle release, bug fixes of known bugs are another one. With Oracle 19c, at least two bugs related to Automatic List Partitioning were fixed. I did some tests with Auto-List Partitioning on an Oracle 19.3 database.

Data Types of Join Columns

The data type of primary key and foreign key columns has an impact on the query performance. This should be considered in the design decision of keys in a Data Vault schema.

My Sessions at DOAG 2017

This year, I had the opportunity to present three sessions at the DOAG conference in Nuremberg – one on each conference day. Here a short summary of the sessions and links to the downloads.

Oracle Database In-Memory and Hash Keys

Hash keys are often used as primary keys in Data Vault environments. When loading dimensional data marts from a Data Vault schema, it seems to be obvious to use them as dimension keys, too. At least in combination with Oracle Database In-Memory, this is not a good idea.

An Intensive Week in Colorado

In the last couple of days, I joined several interesting events in Colorado. First, I was able to take part of the “Advanced Data Vault & Ensemble Modeling Summit” at Genesee Academy. After that, I attended the first “Global Data Summit” conference in Golden, Colorado. And finally, I was invited to a very special dinner of the “Boulder Business Intelligence Brain Trust”.