amazon redshift best practices:

1. While loading the data:

You can add data to your Amazon Redshift tables either by using an INSERT comman
d or by using a COPY command. At the scale and speed of an Amazon Redshift data
warehouse, the COPY command is many times faster and more efficient than INSERT
commands.
The COPY command uses the Amazon Redshift massively parallel processing (MPP) ar
chitecture to read and load data in parallel from multiple data sources. You can
load from data files on Amazon S3, Amazon EMR, or any remote host accessible th
rough a Secure Shell (SSH) connection, or you can load directly from an Amazon D
ynamoDB table.
In this tutorial, you will use the COPY command to load data from Amazon S3. Man
y of the principles presented here apply to loading from other data sources as w
ell.
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