Every year, late in the summer, waves of warm air come off the African continent and enter into the warm open seas of the mid-Atlantic Ocean. When the conditions are right, these waves of warm air form into tropical depressions. Tropical depressions can then turn into a tropical storm, which is when the storms are given a human moniker thus becoming an official “named storm." After that they can become hurricanes of varying intensity and…

Introduction

Previously, we discussed the role of Amazon Redshift's sort keys and compared how both compound and interleaved keys work in theory. Throughout that post we used some dummy data and a set of Postgres queries in order to explore the…