Configuring the maximum size of string columns When creating Redshift tables, the default behavior is to create TEXT columns for string columns. Redshift stores TEXT columns as VARCHAR(256), so these columns have a maximum size of 256 characters (source). To support larger columns, you can ...
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Amazon Redshift doesn't take file size into account when dividing the workload. Split your load data files so that the files are about equal size, between 1 MB and 1 GB after compression. Update table statistics Amazon Redshift uses a cost-based query optimizer to choose the optimum executi...
Large file sizes (greater than 1 GB). Check your file sizes in Amazon S3 and look for large files and file size skew. Break up large files into smaller files, between 100 MB and 1 GB. Try to make files about the same size.
Since you don’t need to worry about managing infrastructure, this ensures that your queries are processed fast and efficiently; your workload auto-scales regardless of the size or complexity of your data. Lack of DevOps resources to manage infrastructure. If your team doesn’t have the ...
Check the status of a statement You can check the status of your statement by usingdescribe-statement. The output fordescribe-statementprovides additional details such as PID, query duration, number of rows in and size of the result set, and the query ID given by Amazon Red...
Configuring the maximum size of string columns When creating Redshift tables, this library's default behavior is to createTEXTcolumns for string columns. Redshift storesTEXTcolumns asVARCHAR(256), so these columns have a maximum size of 256 characters (source). ...
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You can check if you have a large Redshift schema using the following query: SELECTschema, sum(size)ASsize_mb, sum(tbl_rows)ASrows, sum(size) / sum(tbl_rows)ASavg_row_size_mbFROMsvv_table_infoGROUPBY1ORDERBY2DESC If you used theVACUUMcommand but still observe large (size_mb > 10,...