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nzsession Command: How to Manage Netezza Sessions

A Netezza session represents a single connection to the Netezza appliance. You can use the nzsession command to view and manage the sessions. Session starts when user performs following things: Run nzsql command and session ends when they exit Run nzload command Use nzadmin tool Connect to Netezza system with JDBC, ODBC or OLEDB drivers. The session ends when command completes You must be the system administrator or should have proper permissions to show and manage the sessions and transactions. Read: Commonly used Netezza Basic Commands nzsql command and its…

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September 7, 2016
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Netezza External Table and Examples

A Netezza external table allows you to access the external file as a database table, you can join the external table with other database table to get required information or perform the complex transformations. External table script can be used to access the files that are stores on the host or on client machine. If the files are stored on the client machine, Netezza uses REMOTESOURCE option to access those files. Netezza External Table Syntax Below are the various syntax types that you can use to create external table in…

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September 6, 2016
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Commonly used Netezza Utilities

It is very easy to perform the ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) functionalities in Netezza. Netezza supports utilities those can be used to perform the ETL/ELT operations. Below are some of commonly used Netezza utilities: Read: Commonly used Netezza Basic Commands nzload utility nzload is bulk data load utility available in Netezza. This utility supports loading data from flat file to Netezza database tables. Below is the syntax and usage: Usage: nzload -host <host> -db <database> -u <username> -pw <password> -t <target_table_name > -df /user/home/flat_file.txt by default, nzload supports '|'…

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September 4, 2016
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Netezza System Tables and Views

There are lot of Netezza system tables and views views available. You can get the more information about the users, tables, synonyms etc. Read: Netezza data types and length restrictions Netezza Query History details using nz_query_history Table Netezza System Tables and Views Below are the list of some commonly used system tables and views: View Table Description _v_sys_columns Return a list of all columns of table available in database. This is very important system view that can be used to search columns. _v_aggregate _t_aggregate Returns a list of all defined…

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September 4, 2016
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How to Resolve Netezza SPU Swap Partition Error

You might have seen Netezza SPU swap partition error when you are performing some complex transformation that may have included many large table with many complex join. This error does not mean that we have a space issue on any of our Netezza data slices or disks.We get his error when maximum available temporary work space is full. This temporary work space is used by all the temporary tables, sorting, aggregations, joining, implicit data skew (data distribution at run-time) etc. This issue may also occur if the query have cross…

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September 3, 2016
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Big Data Appliance Netezza Key Features

Netezza is an embedded and advanced analytics database. Netezza key features includes predict with more accuracy, deliver the predictions faster and respond rapidly to the any changes. IBM Netezza Analytics advanced technology supports data warehousing and in-database analytics into a scalable, high-performance, massively parallel advanced analytic platform that is designed to work with petascale data volumes. Below are the some of the Netezza Key features: Netezza bigdata appliance supports both, Business Intelligence and in-database advanced analytics. Lightning fast performance - scalable (10-100x) performance at petascale. Very Efficient even if being used…

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September 3, 2016
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Netezza Joins and it’s Algorithms

Netezza joins combines the columns of the reports from the more than one table. SQL JOIN clause is used to combine rows from two or more tables, based on a common field between them. The best way to understand the Netezza joins is to get to know the SQL joins and then consider the algorithm that is used by database to resolve them. Read: Netezza nzsql Command and its Usage Netezza Generate Statistics: A Guide and Best Practices Commonly used Netezza Utilities Netezza Joins: Equi Join An equijoin is a join…

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August 14, 2016
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Netezza nzsql Command and its Usage

The Netezza nzsql command invokes a SQL command interpreter on the Netezza host or any Unix/Linux system that can act as a edge node to connect to Netezza host. Read: Netezza Basic Commands Commonly used basic Netezza Linux Commands You can use the nzsql command to perform all the sql related stuffs. E.g. create database objects, run queries, and manage various databases created on that particular server. You cannot manage the object created in different host or server. Read: nzload Command and its Usage in Netezza Netezza nzsql Internal Slash…

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August 12, 2016
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Working with Materialized Views in Netezza

When you create a materialized views from a base table, the Netezza system stores the view definition for the lifetime of the SPM view and is visible as a materialized view. SPM view data slices are co-located on the same data slices as the corresponding base table data slices hence increases the performance of the query. A materialized views reduces the width of number of columns being scanned in a base table, these type of view contains a small subset of frequently queried columns. When you query the table (table with large number of…

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August 7, 2016
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How to install vmware player and Netezza Emulator on ubuntu

The Netezza emulator is an emulated Netezza appliance that runs both a virtual host and a virtual S-Blade. It is a fully functional system to be used for initial development and testing only. This tool should never be used in the PRODUCTION environment. It is simply a tool for developers only and you cannot use it for performance optimization. You can use this tool to learn the Netezza appliance. Note: This tutorial is tested on the ubuntu 14.04 Useful Netezza Emulator Information Short information that you might want to know before start using Netezza emulator You should treat…

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August 4, 2016