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gpsupport: Support Utility for VMware Greenplum

Author | Nihal Jain Troubleshooting and identifying supportability issues in a complex database system can be a daunting task. However, with the advent of tools like gpsupport, the process has become much simpler and more efficient. gpsupport is a powerful diagnostic utility provided by VMware Greenplum that enables

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Improving Greenplum Upgrade Performance

Authors | Kevin Yeap & Brent Doil Introduction Greenplum Upgrade (gpupgrade) is a utility that allows in-place upgrades from Greenplum Database (GPDB) 5.x version to 6.x version. Version 1.7.0 boasts a significant performance improvement compared to earlier releases. These resulted from several key optimizations that were implemented while

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5 Essential Tips for Managing Greenplum Databases

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) database designed for high-performance analytics and data warehousing. Similar to handling other MPP databases, it mandates routine query refinement, resource allocation adjustments, and data safeguarding. Within this blog post, we will delve into five indispensable guidelines tailored to the effective management of Greenplum.

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10 Examples of Compression Enablement in Greenplum

Author | Wen Lin Introduction Greenplum is an open-source, massively parallel data warehouse designed for analytics and AI applications. Efficient data compression is vital in Greenplum to reduce storage space and improve query performance. Greenplum offers several techniques for compressing data, reducing storage costs, and improving query performance.

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Commonly tuned parameters in GP7

Frequently tuned Greenplum parameters: Please find below the list of most commonly used Greenplum parameters.  Tuning these parameters can assist with the efficient memory management, performance tuning, resource and connection management of your Greenplum database. Please test these parameter changes on Dev or QA environments before implementing them

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20 Examples of Greenplum 7 Partition Commands

Author | David Kimura Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) database designed for handling large-scale data warehousing and analytics workloads. One of its key features is the ability to partition tables, which helps improve query performance, manage data distribution, and enhance data organization. In this blog

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Parallel Restore and Partitioned Tables in GPDB

Author | Andrew Repp The release of Greenplum Database 7 (GPDB7) brings with it many new features, and each of them requires some thought to make sure we get the most out of them. Today, I want to talk about the tweaks we on the Greenplum Kernel team

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Big Data in Healthcare: Revolutionizing Patient Care with AI

Author | Joe Smith In recent years, the healthcare industry has witnessed a tremendous surge in data volume. This data originates from various sources, encompassing patient health records, electronic devices, genomics, medical imaging and more. Simultaneously, advancements in computational power have enabled the processing of vast amounts of

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ALTER TABLE in Greenplum 7: Avoiding Table Rewrite

Author | Huasong Fu The ALTER TABLE commands are commonly used for operations like adding columns, changing the column data type, and many more. In many cases, such commands require the whole table to be rewritten while holding an exclusive lock on the table. For large tables this can

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Progress Reporting Views in Greenplum 7

Authors | Alexandra Wang & Marbin Tan Greenplum 7 provides progress reporting for certain commands during their execution. The commands include ANALYZE, CLUSTER, CREATE INDEX, VACUUM, COPY and BASE_BACKUP.The support for progress reporting in Greenplum 7 is on par with Postgres 15. Therefore the pg_stat_progress_% system views in Postgres 15

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Best Tools for Big Data Analytics

Author | Joe Smith In the increasingly digitized and data-driven business world, understanding and harnessing the power of big data is not just advantageous – it’s essential. Big data analytics tools provide the technology to extract, analyze, and leverage valuable insights from colossal datasets, leading to smarter decision-making

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How to Play Python3 with GPDB6

We recently released GreenplumPython, a Python library that allows users to interact with Greenplum or PostgreSQL in a Pythonic way. GreenplumPython provides a pandas-like table API that is familiar and intuitive to Python users. GreenplumPython is making it powerful for performing complex analyses such as statistical analysis with

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Avoiding subtransaction overflow in GPDB6

Author | Soumyadeep Chakraborty Subtransaction overflow can really bring a cluster to it’s knees, if coupled with long running transactions. It manifests when any given backend creates more than 64 subtransactions in any given transaction that it runs. This can happen on the master as well as primaries.

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Generated Columns in Greenplum 7

Authors: Ashwin Agrawal, Divya Bhargov, Kristine Scott Greenplum 7 brings in the STORED generated columns feature from Postgres 12. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at stored generated columns and explore their benefits and use cases. Generated columns are useful for cases where the calculated

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