Thanks, all. I figured auto was probably the best. I am going to post another question in a different topic about how to run DBD on a single table.

Hi,

What is the best encoding type for a varchar that stores people last name? Obviously the cardinality is low. Should I just leave it AUTO?

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Hi, I installed Vertica on a CentOS box. When I try to launch admintools as the dbadmin user, I get a permission denied error: [dbadmin@vertica-new ~]$ admintools A system-related error has occurred. For more information see the error number returned below. Exiting. [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/o...

Can I install the 7.0 version of MC to run against a 6.1.3 database? Looks like the doc says no, but I was curious if any one tried.

One of my nodes failed last night bring the whole cluster down. Below is the errors that I think started the problem. But the disk drive as 1.7 TB frees,so I don;t understand the No space on device error :( Anyone have any idea why I would get this? 2014-04-03 04:07:38.340 LowDiskSpaceCheck:0x7f14e4...

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science is required; a Master’s degree is preferred.

That's too bad! Most of my friends (and myself) do not have CS degrees as they got into IT later in life

Sounds interesting! Can you elaborate a little on what type of jobs are available?