Snowflake vs Databricks: Workloads, Costs and How to Choose
Compare Snowflake and Databricks by workload, governance, complete cost and operating effort. Includes a practical proof-of-concept checklist.
Optimise or Migrate? How to Decide What Your Data Platform Needs
A slow query, a licence renewal or a rising cloud bill can start the same conversation: should we move to a different data platform? The useful first question is more specific: which requirement can the current system no longer meet, and what evidence shows why? Migration can be the right answer. So can targeted optimisation, …
From Pay-as-You-Go to Pricing Lock-In
Rethinking Cloud Pricing in the Age of AI AI, the Future of Cloud Pricing, and Business Outcomes AI Changes the Economics of Compute Continuous productive use can reduce scale-to-zero savings, but elasticity still helps changing demand and concurrency. Provider efficiencies and contract terms can also affect cost. The pricing outcomes discussed here are forecasts, not …
The Most Dangerous System in Your Bank Runs on Excel Popular
Spreadsheet risk depends on access, validation, change control and ownership. Practical governance matters for Excel and for the pipelines that replace it.
AI Agents Are Quietly Rewriting the Cloud Database Cost Model
I have spent over twenty years building and optimising enterprise data warehouses, and in that time, I have watched the industry cycle…
From 12,400 Partitions to 3: How Snowflake’s Four Access Paths Actually Work Widely read
Snowflake standard tables and hybrid tables have different access paths. Compare pruning, clustering, Search Optimization and hybrid-table indexes in the context of the workload.
Snowflake’s Evolving Table Types, Services, and Administrative Choices
Snowflake in 2026 is not the platform you onboarded onto. The question is whether your team has noticed.