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by Jbaskin
Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:01 pm
Forum: Vertica SQL
Topic: LAST_VALUE bug?
Replies: 2
Views: 6790

LAST_VALUE bug?

Hi guys, Check out the query below. I don't understand the results of the "Last order by col1" and "Last order by col2" columns. Shouldn't "Last order by col1" be equal to "E" and "Last order by col2" be equal to "A"?!?! dbadmin=> SELECT col1, dbadmin-> col2, dbadmin-> first_value(col1) over () AS "...
by Jbaskin
Wed Sep 12, 2012 2:52 pm
Forum: New to Vertica
Topic: BOOLEAN vs. INT
Replies: 1
Views: 5913

BOOLEAN vs. INT

Hi, Are there any recommendations for using the BOOLEAN data type over an INT data type to represent true or false type columns? I see that the BOOLEAN data type has a smaller footprint (size 1 vs size 8): dbadmin=> CREATE TABLE boolean_test (c1 BOOLEAN, c2 INT); CREATE TABLE dbadmin=> \d boolean_te...
by Jbaskin
Thu Aug 23, 2012 7:31 pm
Forum: Vertica Error Codes
Topic: ERROR 2792
Replies: 1
Views: 16374

ERROR 2792

Hello, Is there a way around the error "ERROR 2792: Correlated subquery with aggregate function COUNT is not supported". Simple example: vert01=> create table test (c1 int, c2 int); CREATE TABLE dbadmin=> select c1, c2, (select count(c2) from test t2 where t2.c1 = t1.c1 and t2.c2 = 0) c2_sum from te...
by Jbaskin
Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:08 pm
Forum: vSQL
Topic: How to describe a System table
Replies: 3
Views: 11207

Re: How to describe a System table

Cool, thanks! The system_columns table has what I'm looking for: dbadmin=> select column_name, data_type from system_columns where table_name = 'sessions'; column_name | data_type ----------------------------+--------------- node_name | varchar(128) user_name | varchar(128) client_hostname | varchar...
by Jbaskin
Thu Aug 09, 2012 1:03 pm
Forum: Vertica Error Codes
Topic: Error: INTERNAL: VIAssert(list->length > 0) failed
Replies: 4
Views: 21532

Re: Error: INTERNAL: VIAssert(list->length > 0) failed

Becky, Thanks for your interest in this odd error... Here is a script to use to create the tables with data... the queries I used are at the bottom. create table emp (ename varchar(100), sal int, dname varchar(100)); create table dept (dname varchar(100)); insert into dept values ('ACCOUNTING'); ins...
by Jbaskin
Thu Aug 09, 2012 12:46 pm
Forum: vSQL
Topic: How to describe a System table
Replies: 3
Views: 11207

How to describe a System table

Hi guys, How do I describe a system table in vsql with the \d meta command? dbadmin=> \dS sessions; List of tables Schema | Name | Kind | Description | Comment -----------+----------+--------+-----------------------------+--------- v_monitor | sessions | system | Information on each Session | (1 row...
by Jbaskin
Wed Aug 08, 2012 1:07 am
Forum: Vertica SQL
Topic: NULL vs. Empty String ''
Replies: 4
Views: 16298

Re: NULL vs. Empty String ''

Just curious, is there an option to let Vertica treat '' as a null?

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