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Intern Lunch with Vertica GM

Nkritikos
July 12, 2016

Last week, the interns had lunch with the General Manager, Colin Mahony. The lunch started with everyone introducing themselves, and we've come to know that Colin impressively remembers everyone's names. We shared lunch over a casual round-table discussion. We even got to enjoy a slice of cake afterwards.
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Do You Need to Put Your Query on a Budget?

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
July 6, 2016

Before we scare you away with the word "budget", rest assured that after reading this blog, you won?t have to give up your favorite activities or sell your car. What you will be able to do is understand how Vertica resource pool parameters affect query budget.

Jump Start your BI Dashboard Development with Vertica

BD_Partner_Eng
June 27, 2016

Do you develop BI dashboards for Vertica? Or would you like to give it a try? To help you get started, the Vertica Partner Engineering team has created a set of QuickStart BI sample apps. You can download them for free from the

Analyze Mismatched Series with Event Series Joins

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
June 20, 2016

Event series occur in tables with a time column, most typically a TIMESTAMP data type. In Vertica, you perform an event series join to analyze two series in different tables when their measurement intervals don't align, such as with mismatched timestamps.

Jump Start your ETL Application Development with Vertica

BD_Partner_Eng
June 15, 2016

Interested in exploring the Vertica Analytic Database in the context of data movement and transformation? To get a feel for it, try our new ETL QuickStart sample apps. You'll find them on the Big Data Marketplace. Our Partner Engineering team develops QuickStart apps using tools from our technology partners. Currently we have ETL QuickStarts for...

A Day in the Life of a Vertica Intern

Nkritikos
June 6, 2016

When I set out to find an internship for the summer, I was afraid that I would inevitably end up in a position where my primary responsibility was to fetch coffee. Fortunately for me, my first day on the job at Vertica proved that this would not be the case.

Which One of These is Not Like the Others?

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
May 17, 2016

With the new guaranteed uniqueness optimization feature in Vertica 7.2.2, Vertica automatically recognizes when a query is accessing columns with unique values and optimizes the query operations that would otherwise be bogged down due to duplicate values.

Classified: FAQs on Access Policies

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
May 2, 2016

In Vertica 7.2.2 we?ve added more security features, including a row-level access policy option. Combined with our previously existing column access policy, Vertica verifies that your data is more secure than ever.
Modern Database Analytics

Watch Machine Learning for Predictive Analytics in Action

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
April 27, 2016

Watch this video to learn more about the Vertica Machine Learning for Predictive Analytics features new in 7.2
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Vertica Champions Diversity

Sarah Lemaire
April 25, 2016

On Thursday, April 14, the Microfocus DataGals** hosted a free screening of the award winning documentary Code: Debugging the Gender Gap in Cambridge, MA.

Identifying Patterns in Your Data with Event Series Pattern Matching – Part 1

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
April 20, 2016

Vertica's event series pattern matching functionally lets you identify events that occur is specific patterns. In this blog, we'll introduce you to the pattern matching key features.
Database Server Room

Learn More From Your Data with Machine Learning Algorithms

Chana Zolty
April 14, 2016

NOTE: This article refers to Vertica 7.x and is considered outdated.  This article is more relevant to later Vertica versions. New in Vertica 7.2.2 is the Machine Learning for Predictive Analytics package. This analytics package allows you to use built-in machine learning algorithms on data in your Vertica database. Machine learning algorithms are extremely valuable in...