Greenplum is the first open source data warehouse. Purchased and improved by EMC, sold to Dell, makes Greenplum one of the most powerful and widely-used systems in the world. This incredible MPP data warehouse is designed for on-premises systems and the cloud. This book details the architecture of the Greenplum Data Warehouse and the SQL commands available. This book is perfect for anyone who designs, administers or queries Greenplum. The book educates readers on how to create tables and indexes, how the data is distributed, and how the system processes the data. Plus, it is followed up with over 700 pages of SQL examples and explanations. The Authors Tera-Tom Coffing, who has written over 75 successful books on Data Warehousing and Leona Coffing, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Coffing Data Warehousing bring a combined 40 years of experience of data warehouse knowledge to create this must have book.