Industry Analyst Don Feinberg & Vertica CTO Mike Stonebraker on Analytic Databases "COLUMN DATABASES typically outperform all other databases including those that are built specifically for data warehousing," Feinberg says. Watch this podcast to learn how
NB: as you probably know, you can list tables/indices/sequences/views from the command line with the \d{t|i|s|v} command, but here I want to show how to extract these informations using standard SQL queries.
why, in 2005, we are still using proprietary and unnecessarily complicated wire protocols to talk to database servers when we could be using something much simpler, something akin to RSS