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Practice Makes Perfect at BDC 2020

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at 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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Complex Data Types in SQL 2 – Benefits of SQL Support

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

Co-authored by James Clampffer, Deepak Majeti. In this second post in the 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 in this series where we discussed the , and explored the various complex types in...
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Get the Row Count from an Outer Table Join

Jim Knicely, Vertica Field Chief Technologist
October 22, 2019

Aggregate functions summarize data over groups of rows from a query result set. When using an aggregate function like COUNT with an "*" or "1" parameter value, you may get a different result when the query implements a LEFT join verses an INNER join. If you want a row count of just the rows from...
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Vertica 9.3 Supports UPDATE and DELETE Operations on Tables Having Live Aggregate Projections!

Jim Knicely, Vertica Field Chief Technologist
October 17, 2019

A live aggregate projection contains columns with values that are aggregated from columns in its anchor table. When you load data into the table, Vertica aggregates the data before loading it into the live aggregate projection. On subsequent loads (for example, through INSERT or COPY) Vertica recalculates aggregations with the new data and updates the...
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The Vertica Academy Is Open for Learning

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
September 9, 2019

One of the greatest impacts from digital transformation, both from a personal and professional point of view, is not just the democratization of data - a very popular topic here at Vertica! - but the democratization of knowledge. Today, we are excited to announce the new, a platform that offers self-paced, technical training and certifications...
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Announcing Vertica Version 9.2.1 – Take Analytics Efficiency to the Next Level

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
May 10, 2019

This week, some very cool things have gone into the newest version of the that make your analytics fly and save on your AWS budget. The theme for this release is Improving Vertica in Eon Mode Integration with Amazon S3, and there are a whole bunch of new features designed to do exactly that. But,...

The Life of a Query, According to Henry Ford

Vertica Technical Team
January 10, 2017

While Henry Ford did not in fact develop or even patent the modern assembly line (that credit goes to Ransom E. Olds), he relied heavily on the process for automobile production."

Redesigning Projections for Query Optimization

Vertica Technical Team
November 9, 2016

When you submit a query to Vertica, the Vertica query optimizer automatically assembles a query plan, which consists of a set of operations to compute the requested result. Depending on the properties of the projections defined in your database, the query optimizer can choose faster and more efficient operations. Thus, it?s important to recognize what...

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 at Vertica's Big Data Conference."

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.
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Looking Under the Hood at Vertica Queries

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
March 2, 2016

When you submit a query to Vertica, you want it to execute as quickly and efficiently as possible. The query optimizer creates a plan that is designed to do just that. The directives in the query plan determine your query's run-time performance and resource consumption, but the properties of your projections and the system parameters also impact...

Tell the Optimizer You Have a Better Plan

Michael
December 17, 2015

You're upgrading your database and some query appears to execute less efficiently than before. What can you do? Vertica addresses this concern in Vertica 7.2 with directed queries