Silently Install or Upgrade the Client Drivers and Tools for Windows

  1. As a Windows Administrator, open a command-line session, and change directory to the folder that contains the installer.
  2. Run the command: 
    VerticaSetup.exe -q -install InstallFolder="C:\Program Files\Vertica Systems"

The client drivers and tools are silently installed in C:\Program Files\Vertica Systems\.

Upgrading the Client Drivers and Tools for Windows

You do not need to uninstall the Client Drivers and Tools for Windows before upgrading. The installation program upgrades the existing drivers and tools in place.

If you are using Vertica client drivers for Windows that were released before Vertica 7.2.3, you must first uninstall the older drivers. This is true for the separate JDBC client driver download (the .jar file). This is also true for the client drivers included in the package, Client Drivers and Tools for Windows (an .exe file), which includes ODBC, vsql, ADO.NET, OLEDB, the Visual Studio plugin, and SQL Server integration components. Once you have installed client versions 7.2.3, you do not need to uninstall for upgrades that follow. For example, upgrading from 8.1.x to 9.2.x would not require that you uninstall before upgrade.