System prerequisites

The Vertica Client Drivers and Tools for Windows has basic system prerequisite requirements.

1: .NET framework
2: Microsoft visual studio
3: Microsoft SQL server

The Vertica Client Drivers and Tools for Windows has basic system prerequisite requirements. The pack also requires that specific Microsoft components be installed for full integration.

For a list of all prerequisites, see Client drivers support in the Supported Platforms document.

Fully update your system

Before you install the Vertica driver package, verify that your system is fully up to date with all Windows updates and patches. See the documentation for your version of Windows for instructions on how to run Windows update. The Vertica client libraries and vsql executable install updated Windows libraries that depend on Windows service packs. Be sure to resolve any issues that block the installation of Windows updates.

If your system is not fully up-to-date, you may receive error messages about missing libraries such as api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll when starting vsql.

1 - .NET framework

The Vertica Client Drivers and Tools for Windows requires and prompts you to install the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 if it is not installed.

To manually install the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6, see the Microsoft documentation.

2 - Microsoft visual studio

The Vertica Client Drivers and Tools for Windows installer provides a Visual Studio plug-in which allows you to use Vertica as a Visual Studio Data Source for Visual Studio 2012, 2013, or 2015.

The Vertica Client Drivers and Tools for Windows installer provides a Visual Studio plug-in which allows you to use Vertica as a Visual Studio Data Source for Visual Studio 2012, 2013, or 2015. The connection properties for the plug-in are the same as ADO.NET connection properties.

Important

Important: You must have Visual Studio and the matching SDK installed to use the Visual Studio plug-in.

After installing the plug-in, you can use it to access your Vertica database from within Visual Studio. If you do not have the SDK installed, download the SDK specific to your version of Visual Studio.

Note

For Visual Studio 2015, you do not need to download the SDK separately as it is included as an installation option with the Visual Studio installation. For more information, refer to the Microsoft documentation.

If the Microsoft Visual Studio SDK is missing when you begin the installation, a dialog box will open to install it. You can choose to ignore this dialog box.

Configuring SSDT-BI integration

The Vertica Client Drivers and Tools for Windows installer provides SSDT-BI (Visual Studio 2012, 2013, or 2015) integration. To use SSDT-BI, follow this process:

Install the SSDT-BI development tool add-on for Visual Studio.
Verify that SQL Server is installed on the same or a different machine.
Verify that the SQL Server Shared Features for SSDT-BI have been activated.

You can then develop packages using SSDT-BI, creating your projects using SQL Server's SSIS, SSAS, SSRS features. To use these features, you must connect to Vertica through the Vertica ADO.NET driver (for SSIS and SSRS) or the OLE DB driver (for SSAS).

For more information, see Microsoft components.

3 - Microsoft SQL server

Use SQL Server 2012, 2014 or 2016.

Use SQL Server 2012, 2014 or 2016. The Vertica Client Drivers and Tools for Windows installer enables support for the following:

SQL Server 2012, 2014, and 2016:
- SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
- SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
- SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
SQL Server using 2012, 2013, and 2015—SQL Server Data Tool - Business Intelligence (SSDT-BI)

Note
For SQL Server 2012, you can use either SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2012 SP1.

To use the enhanced Vertica .NET support, you must first install SQL Server. Then, you can install the Client Drivers and Tools for Windows. The following components must be installed on the SQL server:

For...	Install...
SSAS	The Analysis Services Instance Feature.
SSRS	The Reporting Services Instance Feature.
SSIS (Data Type Mappings)	The SQL Server Integration Services Shared Feature.
SSDT-BI (Visual Studio 2012, 2013, or 2015)	SQL Server Data Tool - Business Intelligence Shared Feature only after installing Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, 2013, or 2015.