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Spotfire Data Virtualization

    Infer data types by introspecting csv files

    The TDV standard File-Delimited adapter introspects all columns in the CSV file as VARCHAR type. It would save time if the data types were inferred by looking at the data in the CSV file.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 3 Already exists

    Support introspection of column comments from MS SQL Server

    No description provided
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Web UI - Language Localization

    Support localization of the Web UI.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 0 Planning to implement

    Allow query results to be cached in-memory on Server

    This is different than our normal caching. We want to offer ways to store query results in memory on the server for high-speed / low-latency interaction with the data.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 0 Future Consideration

    Support for Azure Cosmos DB as a data source

    Provide support for Azure Cosmos DB as a data source. Caching and data ship are out of scope initially. Please indicate in the comments if that is desired.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Future Consideration

    Provide a simple interface to setup incremental caching

    Add a new UI to setup incremental caching capabilities for a view based on timestamp, dates and/or IDs.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development 0 Future Consideration

    Provide self-tuning capabilities in the query engine

    Have the query engine learn and recommend optimizations that can be provided to the developer as they are creating / designing views.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add a file adapter to connect to avro files directly

    Extend the flat file support of the server to connect directly to avro files to read in data.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 0 Future Consideration

    add hint in SQL SELECT to explicitly choose which table to data-ship to which data source

    At the moment there is a hint to suppress data-ship within a query. I do miss a hint to explicitly tell the TDV engine which table (or view) he must ship to another database (and which database). Reason: in some situations TDV does make decisions ...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 0 To be Reviewed

    Add Dataship options for DB2 z/OS (Type 4) sources

    Please add Dataship options for DB2 z/OS (Type 4) sources. I took contact with Tibco support but they can't help. It's old type of database but still in use. Technically dataship have to be possible. In the Advance connection tab, I don’t see opti...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 2 Needs Info
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