Vertica 9

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,...

What’s New in Vertica 9.2?

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
December 5, 2018

Soniya Shah authored this post. The latest version of Vertica was released earlier this month and with it comes a host of new features. In Vertica 9.2, we introduced several new features including: Eon Mode Updates Management Console changes Performance improvements Upgrade and installation changes Voltage SecureData updates Management Console Changes These Management Console updates...

Before Upgrading: Identify and Remove Unsupported Projections

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
October 30, 2018

With Vertica 9.1 and 9.2, Vertica has removed support for the following projections: Vertica 9.1: Projection buddies with different SELECT and ORDER BY clauses. All projection buddies must specify columns in the same order. The Vertica database regards projections with non-compliant buddies as unsafe. Vertica 9.2: Pre-join and range segmentation projections. If a table's only...

Setting the Table-Level Active Partition Count: Quick Tip

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
August 30, 2018

Jim Knicely authored this tip. The Tuple Mover assumes that all loads and updates to a partitioned table are targeted to one or more partitions that it identifies as active. In general, the partitions with the largest partition keys—typically, the most recently created partitions—are regarded as active. As the partition ages, it commonly transitions to...

What’s New in Management Console 9.1

Linda
August 24, 2018

This blog post was authored by Lisa Donaghue. In Vertica 9.1, Management Console (MC) introduces improved monitoring for external tables and HCatalog data, and the ability to revive Eon Mode databases in a new cluster. MC also includes management and monitoring capabilities for databases running in Eon Mode, a database mode previously in beta. Eon...

Setting the Max Memory Available by Query: Quick Tip

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
August 21, 2018

Jim Knicely authored this tip. Vertica 9.1.1 introduces the new Resource Pool parameter MAXQUERYMEMORYSIZE. Its value represents the maximum amount of memory the pool can allocate at runtime to process a query. If the query requires more memory than this setting, Vertica stops execution and returns an error. dbadmin=> CREATE RESOURCE POOL limited_by_query MAXQUERYMEMORYSIZE '1K';...

Converting CHAR and VARCHAR to BINARY or VARBINARY

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
August 16, 2018

Jim Knicely authored this tip. As of Vertica 9.1.1, explicit coercion (casting) from CHAR and VARCHAR data types to either BINARY or VARBINARY data types is supported! Prior to Vertica 9.1.1: dbadmin=> INSERT INTO test_coercion SELECT 'Convert me!'; OUTPUT -------- 1 (1 row) dbadmin=> SELECT c1::VARBINARY FROM test_coercion; ERROR 2366: Cannot cast type varchar to...

Change the Owner of a Schema

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
August 13, 2018

Jim Knicely authored this tip. As of Vertica 9.1.1, you can now transfer the ownership of a schema to another user! dbadmin=> CREATE USER etl_user; CREATE USER dbadmin=> ALTER SCHEMA my_etl_schema OWNER TO etl_user; ALTER SCHEMA dbadmin=> SELECT schema_name, schema_owner FROM schemata WHERE schema_name = 'my_etl_schema'; schema_name | schema_owner ---------------+-------------- my_etl_schema | etl_user (1 row)...

Important: gcc and Ubuntu 16.04 Incompatibility

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
June 8, 2018

Vertica 9.0.1-9 and later 9.0 hotfixes now support Ubuntu 16.04. However, Ubuntu 16.04 ships with a compiler that is incompatible with the Vertica C++ SDK. To compile UDxs on this platform, you must install packages for 4.8 compatibility: $ sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8 $ sudo apt-get install g++-4.8 $ cd /usr/bin $ sudo ln -s...

What’s New in 9.1: Voltage SecureData Integration

Gary
June 6, 2018

Vertica Version 9.1 introduces a new integration with Voltage SecureData. This feature lets you use encryption to protect sensitive data within your Vertica database. It works within your existing database schema and clients. You can even automate data decryption. This automation makes decryption transparent and removes the need to change your existing SQL queries. What...

Announcing Vertica 9.x Query Performance Tuning Training

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
May 29, 2018

This blog post was authored by Drea Brandford. You have had up and running in production for a while now; but you’re noticing that, while your analytic queries are executing far faster than they would in a traditional row-store database, they are still not performing quite as fast as you need them to. Chances are,...

Vertica Quick Tip: Tuple Mover (TM) Assigned More Resources in Vertica 9.1

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
May 24, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. In version 9.1 and later, Vertica increases the default amount of memory assigned to the Tuple Mover (TM) resource pool from 200MB to 5% of available memory to improve performance merging out wide tables. If your General resource pool is defined by a percentage, the Tuple Mover...

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