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Announcement JAvila 1.5K views 1 comment 1 point Most recent by rahulpanda95 February 2020
When was the last time you've checked your OS vulnerability?

Announcement mosheg 425 views 0 comments 1 point Started by mosheg October 2019
Split a string into parts

SarahL 2.1K views 2 comments 1 point Most recent by marcothesane November 2020
Have VSQL Beep Upon Command Completion

Jim_Knicely 405 views 2 comments 1 point Most recent by carl125 November 2020
recovery failing after power outage

Question bertramf 268 views 0 comments 0 points Started by bertramf October 2020
Re-IP - Checking All IP Addresses when Changing Using Re-IP

Amaksh 246 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Amaksh September 2020
Using Access Policies in Vertica to Hide Sensitive Data

Amaksh 265 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Amaksh September 2020
Database Storage - Raw and Compressed Size

Jim_Knicely 869 views 1 comment 1 point Most recent by yalin September 2020
How to Create a Database with Desired Node Names

Amaksh 286 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Amaksh August 2020
Enable \timing from the vsql Command Line

SarahL 851 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Jim_Knicely August 2020
How to know what is killing Vertica process

Amaksh 440 views 2 comments 4 points Most recent by Hibiki July 2020
How to delete the oldest partition?

Answered mosheg 355 views 1 comment 1 point Most recent by sahil_kumar May 2020
Replacing the Host With New IP Address

Amaksh 496 views 0 comments -1 point Started by Amaksh May 2020
Rebuilding the Host With the Same IP Address

Amaksh 415 views 0 comments 1 point Started by Amaksh May 2020
Checking the Validity of a Table Audit

Jim_Knicely 818 views 10 comments 1 point Most recent by Sankarmn May 2020
Vertica tip: are your columns too wide?

Bryan_H 587 views 1 comment -1 point Most recent by Anonymous_Wombat April 2020
Define a Vertica Flattened Table Column as Having Both DEFAULT and SET USING Constraints

Jim_Knicely 385 views 0 comments 1 point Started by Jim_Knicely January 2020
Loading ZIP code boundaries from a shapefile in three easy steps!

Bryan_H 397 views 0 comments 1 point Started by Bryan_H January 2020
Base64 decode/encode functions in Vertica (via Python UDX-SDK)

SergeB 607 views 0 comments 1 point Started by SergeB January 2020
Viewing Parquet Export Events More Easily

Jim_Knicely 396 views 0 comments 1 point Started by Jim_Knicely January 2020
Which Database Mode is My Database Using?

Jim_Knicely 405 views 1 comment 1 point Most recent by Abhishek_Rana January 2020
Moving a Table to a New Schema and Inherting the New Schema Privileges

Jim_Knicely 418 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Jim_Knicely December 2019
Working with Python and R in Vertica

Bryan_H 549 views 0 comments 1 point Started by Bryan_H December 2019
Summarize the Values in a String

Jim_Knicely 445 views 0 comments 1 point Started by Jim_Knicely November 2019
Query spends more time on before plan

Answered VigneshN 445 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by emoreno November 2019
Checking and improving column compression and encoding

Bryan_H 513 views 1 comment 1 point Most recent by Sharon_Cutter November 2019
How To get OS/kernel version in Vertica catalog tables

Answered Vertiguy 426 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by ChuckB November 2019
Vertica 9.3 Supports UPDATE and DELETE Operations on Tables Having Live Aggregate Projections!

Jim_Knicely 562 views 2 comments 1 point Most recent by Jim_Knicely October 2019
DIRECT Is Now the Default Load Type

Jim_Knicely 447 views 2 comments -1 point Most recent by Jim_Knicely October 2019
How to alter a column data type from numeric(3,2) to numeric(5,4) in Vertica

Answered Vertiguy 768 views 1 comment 1 point Most recent by hsaxena20 October 2019
Get the Row Count from an Outer Table Join

Jim_Knicely 416 views 0 comments 1 point Started by Jim_Knicely October 2019