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Phil Molea

Sr. Information Developer, Vertica

Phil developed technical documentation in the areas of security and diagnostics for the Vertica Analytics Platform that enabled companies to extract value from their data at the speed and scale they need to thrive in today’s economy.

(Sadly, Phil passed away recently. He will be missed.)

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Data Preparation Tools – Technical Brief

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
August 20, 2018

Curtis Bennett authored this blog Vertica supports a number of industry standard data preparation tools for use in the data science life-cycle. In addition to the functions described here, Vertica has a wide array of analytic capabilities which can be leveraged for additional data preparations including time-series analytics (with missing value imputation), analytic windowing and...
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vertica-python Becomes Vertica’s First Officially Supported Open Source Database Client

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
August 14, 2018

Tom Wall authored this post. We are very excited to announce that vertica-python, the open source python database client for Vertica created by Uber Technologies Inc., will officially become a supported database client for Vertica! This is a great milestone for Vertica and our community of users and developers. Not only do we expect to...
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Sending Emails from the Vertica Database

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
July 25, 2018

Maurizio Felici authored this post. You can create an external procedure to send alert emails from the Vertica database. For more information on external procedures see Using External Procedures in the Vertica documentation. Follow the procedure below to create an external procedure for sending emails. NOTE: These procedures were performed on the Linux OpenSUSE distribution....

Vertica Quick Tip: Keepalive settings for AWS Network Load Balancer

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
July 18, 2018

Serge Bonte authored this post. Network Load Balancers are one of the three types of load balancers supported by Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancing. See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/network/introduction.html Since load balancers act as a proxy between clients (such as JDBC) and Vertica servers, it is important to understand how AWS’s NLB handle idle timeouts for connections. The idle...

Cerner Wins TDWI Best Practices Award

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
July 2, 2018

Steve Sarsfield authored this post. It’s amazing to see our customers ‘crush it’ when it comes to their implementation and best practices industry awards. That’s why I was so happy to hear that Cerner, a long-time Vertica customer, is the recipient of TDWI’s Best practices award for data warehouse. I want to congratulate Cerner on...

Skipping Records with Unspecified JSON Fields

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
June 26, 2018

Serge Bonte and Jim Knicely authored this post. Vertica provides a built-in file parser named FJSONPARSER that parses and loads a JSON file. This file can contain either repeated JSON data objects (including nested maps) or an outer list of JSON elements. For a flex table, the parser stores the JSON data in a single-value...

Analyze Statistics at the Schema Level (Part 2): Quick Tip

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
June 19, 2018

Jim Knicely authored this tip. The ANALYZE_STATISTICS function only accepts a table/projection/column name as input. In yesterday’s Vertica Quick Tip we learned how to get Vertica to generate and execute ANALYZE_STATISTICS SQL statements, one for each table in a given schema. It was an okay solution, but not very convenient. A better option would be...

What’s New in Vertica 8.1: Connecting to Vertica Updates

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
May 1, 2017

Vertica 8.1 includes the following product enhancements to Connecting to Vertica. Functional Updates to \timing The \timing metafunction has been enhanced so you can use the following commands to toggle \timing on or off based on its current setting: •\timing – turns timing on or off depending on its current state. For example if timing...

What’s New in Vertica 8.1: Security Updates

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
April 27, 2017

Vertica 8.1 includes the following enhancements to Vertica security. Function to Verify Kerberos Configuration The function KERBEROS_CONFIG_CHECK allows you to test your Kerberos configuration of the Vertica cluster. Running this function checks: • Whether or not Kerberos services are available. • If a keytab file exists • If the Kerberos configuration parameters are set in...
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Create and Assign Roles

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
March 30, 2017

A role is a collection of privileges that can be granted to one or more users or roles. Assigning roles prevents you from having to manually grant sets of privileges for each individual user. For the most part, creating and assigning roles is fairly straightforward. However, the user to which roles are assigned needs to...

Dynamic Row and Column Access Policies

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
March 1, 2017

The content of this blog post is based on an article authored by Maurizio Felici. The Vertica Analytic Database access policies act on columns and rows to provide extra security on data in your tables. You can create flexible access policies that limit which users can access certain data by applying the access policy to...

Using Inherited Privileges

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
November 16, 2015

New to Vertica 7.2.0, the inherited privileges feature provides a one-step method for enabling privileges at the schema level.