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Join us in the Vertica Unify Developer Lounge: An interview with Vertica’s CTO Chuck Bear

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
May 10, 2021

Every Vertica conference provides users and big data enthusiasts an opportunity to network with their peers in data analytics. But for attendees to find the exact Vertica engineer for questions and answers, there’s nothing like the popular Developer Lounge, which returns this year at Vertica Unify 2021. It’s the place for Vertica users to meet...
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Top 10 Highlights from the Virtual Vertica BDC 2020

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
April 14, 2020

While it was a difficult decision to take the Vertica Big Data Conference 2020 virtual, the registration numbers, session reviews, and overall feedback confirmed that this was our most successful BDC ever! If you did not have a chance to register or missed any of the sessions, no worries. All sessions were recorded and PDFs...
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Vertica Version 10 Launches Today!

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 31, 2020

There’s big news today, on the first day of the Virtual Vertica Big Data Conference 2020 – a major new version of Vertica blasts off! Vertica version 10 soars straight into the greatest deployment flexibility of any analytical data warehouse on the market. This fast and extremely scalable platform gives you more power than ever...
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Vertica Big Data Conference 2020 is Going Virtual

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
March 9, 2020

The updated guidelines around the Coronoavirus (COVID-19) have caused the majority of tech and non-tech conferences to be postponed – from Mobile World Congress to HIMSS to even SXSW, which had a run of 34 consecutive years. Over the last few weeks, a handful of our customer speakers expressed their disappointment in learning that corporate...
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Fill the Gaps on Your Team with BDC Sponsors

Jeremiah Morrow, Senior Industry Product Marketing Manager
March 4, 2020

Jeff Healey’s post about Larry Bird got me thinking about analytics in sports. When I was in graduate school, I attended a sports analytics conference sponsored by MIT. As you may know, Major League Baseball has compiled dozens of statistics over the years, and at that time was adding new ones that had never been...
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The Vertica Big Data Conference Choice Challenge

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
February 24, 2020

Over the years, we’ve had remarkable feedback about the Vertica Big Data Conference. (#VerticaBDC)  How does it get better than this?  And just to be clear, we know the three people who said “no,” but that’s a story for another day. However, I cannot lie.  We have received consistent feedback about one problem that virtually...
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Practice Makes Perfect at BDC 2020

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
February 19, 2020

Larry Bird, Boston Celtics legend and NBA Hall of Famer, shot 500 free throws every morning before his first class in high school. But, he didn’t stop there. Larry was known to shoot 100 free throws after every NBA game. The result? The sharp-shooting forward from French Lick, Indiana led the NBA in free throw...
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Vertica Partners Are the Key to Your Success at BDC 2020

Jeremiah Morrow, Senior Industry Product Marketing Manager
January 8, 2020

There are a lot of reasons to be excited about the Vertica Big Data Conference 2020. One of my favorite parts of the event will be introducing our partner ecosystem to our customers! As Vertica’s partner marketing manager, one of my guiding principles is that innovation doesn’t happen in a silo.
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Top 5 Reasons Why You Win Big with Data at the Vertica Big Data Conference 2020

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
December 9, 2019

A few years ago, we held a user conference for our growing Vertica community. However, we underestimated its success – selling out the inaugural event because we had booked a venue that couldn’t accommodate the interest of hundreds of customers, prospects, and partners for what turned out to be Boston’s biggest and best Big Data...
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Vertica Big Data Conference 2020 – Are You Excited Yet?

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
October 25, 2019

The Vertica Big Data Conference (BDC) clock is ticking and my excitement is growing by the minute! I want to make sure that our Vertica community is up to date on the latest news, especially some of the General Session speakers and Breakout tracks. And let’s not forget one of the most special components of...

Troubleshooting Vertica Query Performance with System Tables

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
August 29, 2016

Do you want to learn how to troubleshoot your query performance issues?  We've got you covered. Just attend