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Updating UDx Projects: Syncing the Vertica Plug-in for Eclipse with New Vertica Versions

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
February 7, 2017

The Vertica SDK Plug-in for Eclipse version 7.1.2 creates UDxs that are compatible with Vertica version 7.1.x. By replacing two files (BuildInfo.java and VerticaSDK.jar) in projects created with this plug-in, you can update your project to work with newer versions of Vertica. You get the replacement files (/opt/vertica/sdk/BuildInfo.java and /opt/vertica/bin/VerticaSDK.jar) from your currently installed Vertica...

Software Engineering Internships at Vertica: Make a Difference This Summer

Chana Zolty
January 30, 2017

Vertica is looking for summer interns in Cambridge, MA for 2017! Vertica is the leading Big Data analytics database, and our scale, performance, and simplicity are unparalleled in the industry. Vertica enables customers like Facebook, Twitter, Uber, and Zynga to solve Big Data problems at scale that they could not tackle otherwise. If you study...

Crowd-sourced Reviews Compare Oracle, Vertica, and Others

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
January 30, 2017

This blog post was authored by Steve Sarsfield.  Crowd-sourced reviews are becoming more and more important in our lives. When you’re thinking about going to a new job, you check out Glassdoor. If you’re heading out to dinner, you check out Yelp. When buying online, the reviews on Amazon are not only informative, but sometimes hilarious....
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LDAP and User Accounts

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
January 30, 2017

This blog post was authored by Soniya Shah. If you are a database administrator, you probably need to authenticate users in Vertica. There are many methods users can use to authenticate, including Ident, Kerberos, LDAP, and hash. This blog walks you through the steps to take if you want to authenticate some users using LDAP...

Vertica Hears From UMass Computer Science Professor

Vertica Technical Team
January 12, 2017

On December 7, Vertica employees were lucky enough to hear a talk from UMass Boston Computer Science Professor Dr. Duc A. Tran. Dr. Tran spoke to us about a distributed storage project he is working on with his students.

The Life of a Query, According to Henry Ford

Vertica Technical Team
January 10, 2017

Batch Exporting Directed Queries

Vertica Technical Team
December 16, 2016

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DataGals Hosts a Hot Chocolate Discussion

Chana Zolty
December 13, 2016

Last week, DataGals?an Vertica employee resource group that encourages women in STEM?hosted a hot chocolate and discussion event open to all Microfocus employees.

Grace Hopper Celebration

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
December 8, 2016

Every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing spotlights women in STEM fields. We're glad to say that Microfocus was a corporate sponsor at the 16th annual GHC this year in Houston, Texas. 15,000 people attended. 14,000 of those attendees were women!

Lady Problems Hackathon Series

Vertica Technical Team
November 30, 2016

The Lady Problems Hackathon series aims to address problems preventing female entrepreneurship.

Vertica Volunteers at East End House

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
November 21, 2016

Read this blog to learn more about how the Vertica team is giving back to the local community!
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Disabling Numeric Overflow

Vertica Technical Team
November 17, 2016

Prior to version 8.0, using a column that has a numeric data type with the functions SUM, SUM_FLOAT, or AVG could result in numeric overflow. Now, you have the ability to turn-off numeric overflow and add implicit precision to your numeric data types.