Fast Tasks

The Fast Tasks page offers a few important tasks to get you started managing your database through MC.

On the MC home page in the Recent Databases section, click Fast Tasks in the Actions column of any available database.

The Fast Tasks page provides the following options:

• Manage and View Your Vertica Database. See the monitoring dashboard for your database. Explore the tabs below your dashboard, which provide more ways to manage the database.
• Connect to your Vertica Database Using SQL. Use Management Console to run SQL queries on your database from within your browser.
• Load Your Data into Vertica Database. The Data Load Activity page allows you to monitor and perform data loading jobs. To load data from an S3 bucket into pre-existing tables in your database, select the Instance tab and click New S3 Data Load

If you installed Vertica through the AWS Marketplace, you had the option to install a database pre-loaded with example clickstream analytic data. If you did so, the Fast Tasks page lists two additional links:

• Play with Example Data in Your Vertica Database (PDF). This PDF guide provides instructions and example SQL queries you can use in Vertica to analyze the example data.

• Vertica Workbook for Tableau (PDF). This PDF guide provides instructions on how to analyze the example data pre-loaded into Vertica, using a Tableau dashboard.