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Posted March 28, 2019 by Ben Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager

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Doing In-Database Machine Learning 1 – Why Would You Do That?

Waqas Dhillon, Product Manager - Machine Learning, Vertica
April 22, 2019

Co-authored with Paige Roberts. A lot of modern like Vertica allow you to do machine learning from end to end, right in the database, rather than moving and transforming the data first into something like a Spark dataframe or a Python data structure. Whenever people hear about this capability, they have two questions. The first...

5 companies that are using data analytics to transform customer experience

Ben Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager
April 15, 2019

Analyzing customer behavior is becoming a mandate for every business in every industry to understand, engage, and retain customers – with the ultimate goal of increasing lifetime value. By understanding how your customers behave and interact with your organization, you can better serve, and profit, from the interactions. Data is central to this equation in...

Forcing a Merge Join

Jim Knicely, Big Data Solutions Architect, Vertica
April 23, 2019

The Vertica optimizer implements a join with one of the following algorithms: Merge join is used when projections of the joined tables are sorted on the join columns. Merge joins are faster and use less memory than hash joins. Hash join is used when projections of the joined tables are not already sorted on the...

Displaying the Vertica Code Name

Jim Knicely, Big Data Solutions Architect, Vertica
April 23, 2019

Every major release of Vertica has a code name. To find out the Vertica code name of your database, you can query the DC_STARTUPS Data Collector table. Example: Helpful Link: Have fun!

Descending Sequences

Jim Knicely, Big Data Solutions Architect, Vertica
April 17, 2019

The default increment for a Vertica sequence is 1. But you can also create a sequence that has a negative increment so that you can have a count down. Example: Helpful Links: Have fun!

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Display Session Sequence Cached Values Remaining

Jim Knicely, Big Data Solutions Architect, Vertica
April 17, 2019

To optimize the performance of large INSERT SELECT and COPY operations, Vertica uses sequence caching. To allocate cache among the nodes in a cluster for a given sequence, Vertica uses the following process: By default, when a session begins, the cluster initiator node requests cache for itself and other nodes in the cluster. The initiator...

Is This a Leap Year?

Jim Knicely, Big Data Solutions Architect, Vertica
April 16, 2019

A Common Year in the Gregorian calendar has 365 days. A Leap Year, which has 366 days, occurs nearly every 4 years. One algorithm to determine if a year is a Common or a Leap Year is: I’d like to create a user-defined SQL function in Vertica that will let me know if the year...

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How Old Am I (In Months)?

Jim Knicely, Big Data Solutions Architect, Vertica
April 16, 2019

You are probably aware that Vertica has a built-in function named AGE_IN_YEARS. It returns the difference in years between two dates, expressed as an integer. Example: My son is turning 18 this year! I was curious to know how many months he’s been on the planet, so I figured that I could just multiply his...

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Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Start-Ups on the Fast Track

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
April 16, 2019

Tuesday, 4/30/19 Workbar Back Bay 6:00-8:00 PM Are you a data-driven start-up that makes decisions based on insight from high-performance analytics and machine learning? Would you like to choose the best analytical tool/ML for the job beyond limited open source offerings, but don’t have the budget? Do you want to hear best practices on how...

Display the Vertica Process Memory Allocated

Jim Knicely, Big Data Solutions Architect, Vertica
April 10, 2019

For common Vertica cluster configurations, there should be a single running Vertica process on each node. You can use the Linux ps command to determine the process ID of the Vertica process. Once you have the process ID, you can display the amount of memory that has been allocated to the Vertica process using the...

Display Database Statement Counts by Type

Jim Knicely, Big Data Solutions Architect, Vertica
April 9, 2019

There are many types of statements that can be executed in Vertica. Examples include queries, DDL (Data Definition Language), and utility statements. To summarize all the types of statements being executed, you can query the QUERY_PROFILES system table. Example: I’d like to view a count of each statement type across my cluster since the first...

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Data Innovation Summit 2019

Mark Whalley, Corporate Systems Engineer
April 9, 2019

Having attended the Big Data Analytics – Europe event in Rotterdam on the 12th March, on 14th/15th, Captain Mark Whalley and fellow Captains from Vertica Airways paid a flying visit to the Whilst there, they crewed the Vertica booth answering questions from passengers and visitors and assuring them that their journey with Vertica would be...