Why would Teradata charge a customer $20,000,000.00 to buy an on-premises Teradata system, then tack on another $2,000,000.00 for professional services, then charge over six figures for education, and then give them a free query tool for everyone to use?
Teradata has always been the most expensive database on the market, and whenever customers beg for a discount, they hear, "Sorry, but it is what the market will bear."
Unfortunately, some customers can't afford to eat because their cupboards are bare!
Is it possible that Teradata is giving away to show their appreciation for the customer? I did recently see a Teradata salesman on a cold day with his hands in his own pockets, so it is possible, but the real reason is Teradata wants users to submit query after query.
If nobody ate at home and everyone went out to eat every night, the streets would be so crowded that they too would need a Workload Manager.
However, if you get a real query tool, you can reduce your queries to Teradata and every other system by 90%. Families who buy groceries and cook at home can save 90% on spending versus going to a restaurant.
Teradata has produced one of the greatest database platforms of our time and was the pioneer in parallel processing. The computing world owes them a debt of gratitude, but unfortunately, many customers just owe them a debt. However, their software query tools are nothing more than a scam to lock customers into over-querying their platform.
The biggest mistake any company can make is to use Teradata SQL Assistant or any free query tool from any database vendor. The good news is that Teradata has officially retired SQL Assistant. However, you can get SQL Assistant 2.0 now under the name Teradata Studio if your IT strategy is "No pain, no gain."
When people purchase the Nexus Query Chameleon from me, their database vendor begins to hyperventilate. Your company can now run queries, get the underlying data, and then slice and dice the results a hundred times without running another query. Users can also share result sets with their peers, pivot the data, put it to an Excel-like worksheet and manipulate it inside Nexus, and run the same analytics they used to have to query on Teradata inside the Nexus. Your PC has a CPU and memory, so why not let Nexus perform the analytics on a data set instead of running another query for each analytic?
The Nexus also allows users to query all databases in the enterprise with a single tool. Nexus even allows users to see tables and views visually, and Nexus writes the SQL for the user. Nexus can join data across 20 different systems, allowing users to slice and dice the results. And anyone who needs to move data from another system into their sandbox can move tables or answer sets from 20 different systems with a point-and-click of the mouse.
Yes, Nexus can instantly or automatically migrate a single table or thousands of tables from every combination of 20 different systems.
Yes, Nexus version 17 can migrate from every combination between all systems below as the source or the target. Do you know how nice that is for users to be able to migrate tables directly to Microsoft Access or join Access and Excel with database tables?
• MySQL
• Excel
• Microsoft Access
• Snowflake
• Redshift
• Synapse
• BigQuery
• Teradata
• Oracle
• SQL Server
• DB2
• Hadoop
• MapR
• Greenplum
• Postgres
• Vertica
• Netezza
• SAP HANA
• Yellowbrick
• SQLite
Check out the picture below and see the many options Nexus brings to the table. Notice all of the systems in the systems tree on the left, notice the option of dark mode, and see the MIGRATE DATA button and the Super Join Builder button to have Nexus write the SQL for you. Also, notice the option of book mode, which puts the answer set to the right of the query window. Contact me for a one-hour demo, and you will free your corporation from any dept to any database vendor. Take back control and take advantage of all the beautiful database platforms you can utilize on-premises or in the cloud.
You can download a free trial of Nexus at CoffingDW.com. You can also see some of the great features of Nexus right here.
Look at the videos on our website at CoffingDW.com or NexusDataServer.com.
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