Vertica Quick Tip: What’s the first day of the month?

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
March 1, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. In the last Vertica Quick Tip we learned about the Vertica built-in LAST_DAY function. So where’s the FIRST_DAY function? You’ll have to create your own. So how do you compute the first day of the month for a given date? There are many ways, each involving a...

The Kafka Streaming Load Scheduler

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
March 1, 2018

This blog post was authored by Tom Wall. Vertica’s streaming load scheduler provides high-performance streaming data load from Kafka into your Vertica database. Whether you already use Kafka or not, it is worth considering it as a solution to your data loading challenges. Kafka complements Vertica very nicely, and the scheduler removes many complexities of...