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Zach Christopherson

Author: Zach Christopherson

Amazon Redshift Engineering’s Advanced Table Design Playbook: Table Data Durability

Part 1: Preamble, Prerequisites, and Prioritization Part 2: Distribution Styles and Distribution Keys Part 3: Compound and Interleaved Sort Keys Part 4: Compression Encodings Part 5: Table Data Durability (Translated into Japanese) In the fifth and final installment of the Advanced Table Design Playbook, I’ll discuss how to use two simple table durability properties to […]

Amazon Redshift Engineering’s Advanced Table Design Playbook: Compression Encodings

Part 1: Preamble, Prerequisites, and Prioritization Part 2: Distribution Styles and Distribution Keys Part 3: Compound and Interleaved Sort Keys Part 4: Compression Encodings (Translated into Japanese) Part 5: Table Data Durability In part 4 of this blog series, I’ll be discussing when and when not to apply column encoding for compression, methods for determining ideal […]

Amazon Redshift Engineering’s Advanced Table Design Playbook: Compound and Interleaved Sort Keys

  Part 1: Preamble, Prerequisites, and Prioritization Part 2: Distribution Styles and Distribution Keys Part 3: Compound and Interleaved Sort Keys (Translated into Japanese) Part 4: Compression Encodings Part 5: Table Data Durability In this installment, I’ll cover different sort key options, when to use sort keys, and how to identify the most optimal sort key […]

Amazon Redshift Engineering’s Advanced Table Design Playbook: Distribution Styles and Distribution Keys

  Part 1: Preamble, Prerequisites, and Prioritization Part 2: Distribution Styles and Distribution Keys (Translated into Japanese) Part 3: Compound and Interleaved Sort Keys Part 4: Compression Encodings Part 5: Table Data Durability The first table and column properties we discuss in this blog series are table distribution styles (DISTSTYLE) and distribution keys (DISTKEY). This blog […]

Amazon Redshift Engineering’s Advanced Table Design Playbook: Preamble, Prerequisites, and Prioritization

  Part 1: Preamble, Prerequisites, and Prioritization (Translated into Japanese) Part 2: Distribution Styles and Distribution Keys Part 3: Compound and Interleaved Sort Keys Part 4: Compression Encodings Part 5: Table Data Durability Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte scale, massively parallel data warehouse that offers simple operations and high performance. AWS customers use Amazon […]