Preface

This document describes how to set up and maintain a Vertica database. You may find that these tasks are extremely simple in Vertica compared to other database management systems.

Prerequisites

This document assumes that you have already:

• become familiar with the concepts discussed in the Product Overview.
• performed the procedures described in the Installation Guide
  • constructed a hardware platform
  • installed Linux
  • installed Vertica (configured a cluster of hosts)
• followed the tutorial in the Quick Start to get experience with the process of setting up an example database

Audience

This document is intended for anyone with responsibility for configuring, loading, securing, and maintaining a Vertica database.

For More Information

There is a great deal of published literature available about dimensional modeling and data warehouse design in general.