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Viewing Parquet Export Events More Easily

James Knicely, Vertica Field Chief Technologist
January 27, 2020

The EXPORT TO PARQUET command exports a table, columns from a table, or query results to files in the Parquet format. When you run EXPORT TO PARQUET information about the files created during the export is stored in the Vertica log. It's no fun combing through a Vertica log looking for those particular records. Good...
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2 – What Are the Benefits of Using Complex Data Types in SQL?

Waqas Dhillon, Product Manager - Machine Learning, Vertica
December 19, 2019

Co-authored by James Clampffer, Deepak Majeti. In this second post in the Complex Data Types blog series, let’s look at some of the reasons complex types are used extensively in organized big data formats like ORC and Parquet. Be sure to read the first post in this series where we discussed the what complex data...