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by JimKnicely
Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:37 pm
Forum: New to Vertica
Topic: Add column to table
Replies: 8
Views: 24183

Re: Add column to table

Well I'll be darned. Thanks, Rajasekhar! That's why I created this site, so that I can learn from others. Not sure how I missed this in the documentation...
by JimKnicely
Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:30 pm
Forum: Vertica SQL
Topic: TIMESERIES clause
Replies: 4
Views: 10835

Re: TIMESERIES clause

To my understanding of the function, the values of a and b will not change. They will always display the values at the time of the time slice. The values of a and b have to also correspond to actual values in the table. Vertica won't derive some arbitrary value for a and b based on a time slice. You...
by JimKnicely
Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:10 pm
Forum: SQuirreL SQL Client
Topic: Setting up SQuirreL
Replies: 8
Views: 38005

Re: Setting up SQuirreL

Probably because they're an analytic database platform provider :) There are already a number of free graphical client tools that can be used to access the data. Try one of them.
by JimKnicely
Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:54 pm
Forum: Vertica Community Edition
Topic: CE in Production Environment?
Replies: 1
Views: 16059

Re: CE in Production Environment?

I don't think so, at least not without a written agreement with Vertica... Note the bold red section below in the TERMS AND CONDITIONS... 1. Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms will have the following meanings: Designated Use: the right to download from Vertica, install, load...
by JimKnicely
Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:57 pm
Forum: New to Vertica
Topic: How to copy a table with no data?
Replies: 6
Views: 17708

Re: How to copy a table with no data?

Hey, Great question! The answer is no... When you do a CTAS in Vertica, the IDENTITY property does not propagate to the new table: Example: dbadmin=> create table foo (col1 auto_increment, col2 varchar(100), primary key(col1)); CREATE TABLE dbadmin=> \d foo; List of Fields by Tables Schema | Table |...
by JimKnicely
Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:16 pm
Forum: Vertica SQL
Topic: Simulate MySQL group_concat Function
Replies: 4
Views: 20196

Simulate MySQL group_concat Function

Hi, In MySQL the group_concat function is used to returns a string result with the concatenated non-NULL values from a group. Example from MySQL: (mydbadmin@localhost) [jim]> select * from combine; +--------+ | name | +--------+ | raj | | sekhar | | nicely | +--------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) (mydb...
by JimKnicely
Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:09 pm
Forum: Vertica SQL
Topic: Splitting up strings of data
Replies: 3
Views: 15254

Re: Splitting up strings of data

Rajasekhar, In MySQL it's very easy to do that! Example: (mydbadmin@localhost) [jim]> select * from combine; +--------+ | name | +--------+ | raj | | sekhar | | nicely | +--------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) (mydbadmin@localhost) [jim]> select group_concat(name) from combine; +--------------------+ | ...

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