When I was about 7 years old and got my first computer during the early nineties, I said “This is the future”. Now that the future is...

Happy 2016! I continue my tradition of summarizing the things I learned in the past year (as a reminder, here’s what I learned in 2013...

In the previous post, we talked about when you should use identity/sequence as a clustered index key and when it’s problematic. In a...

The beginning of the new year is a great opportunity to summarize the previous year, and to look back at the projects, challenges,...

Few days ago (28/12) I delivered a full-day seminar about Hadoop Fundamentals. It was part of the Expert Days 2015 event, which is...

One of our customers has recently asked me the following question (I changed just the business case): The Problem “I have a...

If you need to query the size of tables in Vertica, then you have several ways to do it. I will demonstrate two options. The first is...

If you have many users in Vertica, managing their permissions can be a hassle. If you’d like to grant access privileges on some tables to...

A few days ago I returned from PASS Summit 2015 (and a vacation I took afterwards). Here’s my recap: I opened the week with a FreeCon...

Today we had a full-day event in Microsoft about the data offerings and possibilities in the Microsoft cloud platform – Azure. We invited...