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Vertica Quick Tip: Getting the Root of a Number

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
April 18, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. You can find the square root of a number with the |/ operator and the cube root of a number with the ||/ operator. Have Fun!

Vertica Quick Tip: Extract Time from a Date

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
April 16, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. There are multiple ways to extract just the time from date in Vertica. Which method you choose depends on your preferred result data type. dbadmin=> SELECT * FROM public.test; sysdate | just_time_as_time | just_time_as_varchar ----------------------------+-------------------+---------------------- 2018-04-16 10:17:16.906347 | 10:17:16.906347 | 10:17:16:906347 (1 row) dbadmin=> \d public.test List...

Vertica Quick Tip: Converting Intervals to Numeric

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
April 11, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. Intervals measure the difference between two points in time. Converting an interval to a numeric is easy in Vertica because we can perform operations (i.e. division) on them! Examples: dbadmin=> SELECT INTERVAL '36 HOURS' / INTERVAL '1 DAY' days; days ------ 1.5 (1 row) dbadmin=> SELECT INTERVAL...
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Vertica Quick Tip: Extract Just Numbers from a String of Characters

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
April 10, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. The easiest way to extract just the numbers from a string of characters is to simply remove any character that isn’t a number! Have Fun!

Vertica Quick Tip: Simulating DML Operations on External Tables

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
April 4, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. An external table lets us query a text file that sits outside of the database as if it were a table internal to the database. Unfortunately, there is a limitation on external tables in that normal DML statements (INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE) cannot be used on them....

Vertica Quick Tip: How old am I?

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
April 3, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. The AGE_IN_YEARS function returns the difference in years between two dates, expressed as an integer. This function is very useful when I forget how old I am or how old my wife is being that today is her birthday. Have Fun!

Vertica Quick Tip: Monitoring CPU Usage

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
April 3, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. The V_MONITOR.CPU_USAGE system table records the CPU usage history by node. I can easily find the top 5 highest average CPU usage on my cluster in the previous 24 hours: Have Fun!