We're starting to load up a datawarehouse with data from event logs.  We have a normal star schema where a row in the fact table represents one event.  Our dimension tables are a typical combination of user_agent, ip, referal, page, etc.  One dimension table looks like this:
create table referal_dim(
  id integer,
  domain varchar(255),...
            
           
          
            
            Is there a "Force Index" from MySQL equivalent in Vertica DB?
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            I'm using Vertica Database. I am trying to get the total secs in a particular hour from the following example session data. Any sample SQL code would be very helpful - Thanks 
         start time        end time           session length(secs) 
 2010-02-21 20:30:00      2010-02-21 23:30:00    10800
 2010-02-21 21:30:00     2010-02-21 22:...
            
           
          
            
            What is the Vertica equivalent of crosstab or pivot table found in PostgreSQL and other RDBMS's?
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            I basically have 7 select statements that I need to have the results output into separate columns.  Normally I would use a crosstab for this but I need a fast efficient way to go about this as there are over 7 billion rows in the table.  I am using the vertica database system.  Below is an example of my statements:
SELECT COUNT(user_id)...
            
           
          
            
            My company uses Vertica.  We have Python applications that connect to it with pyodbc.  I do most of my development on a Mac (Snow Leopard) and unfortunately Vertica has not released ODBC drivers for Mac.  They do have JDBC drivers though.  I don't think developing in Jython is a good compromise.  Is there any way to use JDBC drivers with...