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+This page provides frequently-asked questions about the Trafodion project and 
their answers.
+
+# Project
+## What is Project Trafodion?
+Project Trafodion is an open source initiative originally cultivated by HP 
Labs and HP IT to develop an enterprise-class SQL-on-HBase solution targeted 
for big data transactional or operational workloads as opposed to analytic 
workloads.
+
+## When is Trafodion available?
+Trafodion is currently available at downloads.trafodion.org. There, you can 
find an installer and executable code. For installation instructions, see 
Installation.
+
+## What are the key features of Trafodion?
+
+The key features are:
+
+* Full-functioned ANSI SQL language support
+* JDBC/ODBC connectivity for Linux/Windows clients
+* Distributed ACID transaction protection across multiple statements, tables 
and/or rows
+* Transaction recovery to achieve database consistency
+* Optimization for low-latency read and write transactions
+* Support for large data sets using a parallel-aware query optimizer
+* Performance improvements for OLTP workloads with compile-time and run-time 
optimizations
+* Distributed parallel-processing architecture designed for scalability
+
+## What are the key benefits of Trafodion?
+Trafodion delivers a full-featured and optimized transactional SQL-on-HBase 
DBMS solution with full transactional data protection. These capabilities help 
overcome basic Hadoop limitations in supporting transactional workloads.
+
+With Trafodion, users gain the following benefits:
+
+* Ability to leverage in-house SQL expertise versus complex MapReduce 
programming
+* Seamless support for existing transactional applications
+* Ability to develop next generation highly scalable, real-time transaction 
processing applications
+* Reduction in data latency for down-steam analytic workloads
+* Adoption of data reuse by different application domains
+
+And operational SQL users also gain the following benefits inherent in Hadoop 
ecosystem.
+
+* Reduced infrastructure costs
+* Massive scalability and granular elasticity
+* Improved data availability and disaster recovery protection
+
+## Why is it called Trafodion?
+Trafodion is Welsh for transactions.
+
+## What are the primary use cases for Trafodion?
+Primary use cases on Trafodion consist of existing HBase workloads enhanced 
through SQL with transactional data protection. Another class of use cases 
consist of new or rehosted existing operational applications to address 
scalability issues, complex application programming, or prohibitive licensing 
costs.
+
+## What is the heritage of the Trafodion software?
+Trafodion is based on HP’s 20+ year history in developing database products 
for OLTP. Building on this heritage, Trafodion provides distributed transaction 
management protection over multiple SQL statements, multiple tables and 
multiple rows.
+
+## What do you mean by "Transactional or Operational SQL"?
+Transactional or Operational SQL describe workloads were previously described 
simply as OLTP (online transaction processing) workloads. This expands that 
definition from the broad range of enterprise-level transactional applications 
(ERP, CRM, etc.) to include the new transactions generated from social and 
mobile data interactions and observations and the new mixing of structured and 
semi-structured data.
+
+<!-- 20151117 Gunnar Tapper
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+   Commented out this section since the reference is no longer valid.
+   
+   Also, markdown does not like the equal signs in the actual URL, which is 
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+      
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+   
+Further details on Operational DBMS can be found in Gartner’s [Magic 
Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems][gartner].
+
+[gartner]: http://tinyurl.com/p5cwass
+
+-->
+
+----
+
+# Using
+## Why would Trafodion be used over a commercial OLTP database?
+Trafodion is an open source product and like other products in the Hadoop 
ecosystem, it obtains two key advantages over the tradional proprietary OLTP 
database systems: Cost structure and Data reuse.
+
+## Is Trafodion mainly an extension to HBase?
+Not quite. Trafodion runs on top of HBase using the HBase APIs to perform the 
typical SQL functions of insert, update, delete, and query data with 
transactional protection. However, there are plans to include database 
capabilities using the coprocessor mechanism provided by HBase.
+
+## Besides data access via SQL database connection, what other advantages does 
Trafodion offer over existing distributed database technologies?
+With Trafodion, users can make use of standard HBase APIs as well as use 
Trafodion for SQL access to the HBase tables. This includes Trafodion's ability 
to use powerful SQL capabilities to do joins against both HBase and Trafodion 
tables and run queries against them while providing transaction management 
capability.
+
+This allows application developers to choose the best access methods for each 
particular data usage, based on skill set, data size and usage, and access 
pattern requirements.
+
+## Can Trafodion modify tables?
+Yes, Trafodion provides full-featured ANSI DML operations including INSERT, 
UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE, and UPSERT statement support.
+
+## What is the benchmarked performance for a transaction workload?
+Benchmark results will be posted as the community publishes them.
+
+## Where would you position Trafodion according to the CAP theorem? Is it CP 
(consistent and partition tolerant as HBase) or CA (consistent and highly 
available)?
+Trafodion is hosted on top of HBase and HDFS. HBase is generally viewed as 
being CA (Consistent, Available) in the context of the CAP theorem. 
+
+Unlike regular HBase, Trafodion extends the definition of consistency to 
provide ACID protection across transactions comprised of multiple SQL 
statements, tables, and rows.
+
+## How does Trafodion scale in terms of database size?
+As Trafodion is hosted on HBase/HDFS, in theory, Trafodion’s database should 
scale as HBase/HDFS scales. To this point (due to available hardware 
limitations), Trafodion has been tested with configurations up to 10 nodes and 
50 terabytes.
+
+## What about high availability? Does Trafodion have a single point of failure?
+HBase and HDFS are considered highly available with many built in features for 
HA including name node redundancy, HDFS k-safety data replication, HBase 
replication, HBase snapshots, Zookeeper’s highly reliable distributed 
coordination of Hadoop hosted services, and so on. 
+
+Additionally, the planned release of HBase 1.0 is advertised as having many 
additional HA features which Trafodion incorporates as it supports HBase 1.0. 
Furthermore, many Hadoop distributions have added their own HA features at the 
HBase or HDFS layers.
+
+Trafodion leverages HBase and HDFS capabilities for providing extended HA to 
the connectivity and SQL layers. For example, Trafodion registers its 
connection services using Zookeeper to ensure persistent connectivity services. 
Trafodion is designed as an MPP service with replicated service points for HA 
and no single points of failure.
+
+## Is Trafodion best suited for reads or for writes?
+Trafodion provides a bulk load capability that interfaces directly with HDFS 
for high-performance data loading. HBase leverages large-scale cached memory to 
host data in memory until the HFile buffer becomes filled and is then written 
to HDFS. 
+
+Additionally, Trafodion provides many low-latency read optimizations on top of 
HBase to significantly improve the both the random and parallel read 
performance of the database engine. These include:
+
+* Statistics-based plan generation
+* Degree of parallelism optimization
+* In-memory data-flow, scheduler-driven executor
+* Query plan caching
+* Key-based access with SQL “pushdown”
+* Multi-dimensional access method (MDAM)
+* Composite key support
+* Secondary index support
+* Table structure optimizations
+* Salting of row-keys for workload balancing
+
+## Does Trafodion have full text search capabilities?
+Trafodion provides SQL search capabilities using search functions such as 
POSITION (equivalent to INDEX) and SUBSTRING. Once large object (LOB) support 
is made available, a user-written or third-party UDF could be plugged in to add 
search capabilities into documents and images. This is a great area for 
community contribution.
+
+----
+
+# Transactions
+## Is Trafodion’s transaction management an eventually consistent model?
+No, Trafodion supports full ACID properties. Distributed Transaction 
Management provides transaction consistency across multiple row updates, 
updates across multiple tables, and transactions spanning multiple update 
statements. At the return from a COMMIT WORK statement, all rows and tables are 
in consistent form with regards to that transaction.
+
+## Does Trafodion provide transaction management for native HBase tables?
+Yes, Trafodion supports transaction management for native HBase tables.
+
+## Does Trafodion support read consistency?
+Yes, all the reads in Trafodion are completely consistent.
+
+## Does Trafodion offer ability to rollback transactions?
+Yes, Trafodion offers full ACID protection across multiple SQL statements, 
tables, or rows. Transactions can be aborted using the ROLLBACK WORK statement.
+
+## Is there a transaction log and can the log be shipped to a DR site?
+Not really.  There are two logs that the transaction manager uses to 
coordinate transaction history, one at an HBase regionserver level and the 
other at the transaction manager level. But there is no support for shipping 
and replaying these logs on a remote DR site in a transactionally consistent 
manner.
+
+## Does Trafodion support distributed transaction management across multiple 
data centers?
+There is no support for transaction management between Trafodion instances in 
different data centers.
+
+## How does two-phase commit scale linearly on large clusters?
+Trafodion employs a Distributed Transaction Manager (DTM) model where a DTM 
runs on every datanode and each DTM works with its peers in other datanodes to 
coordinate the two-phase commit protocol. For efficiency purposes, the DTM is 
invoked only when necessary:
+
+* If the transaction involves only a single region, then two-phase commit 
coordination is not necessary.
+* The DTM is not involved with read-only transactions.
+* The DTM is not involved in loading data into empty tables or during index 
creation.
+* If the transaction impacts only a single table row, then standard HBase ACID 
protection is used instead of the DTM right now.  In the future,these 
transactions might be fast-tracked using a different mechanism.
+
+----
+
+# Hadoop Integration
+## Does Trafodion work as a Hadoop Yarn application?
+Trafodion has not been tested with Yarn yet, but there is nothing in Trafodion 
that precludes it from being treated as a regular application running in a Yarn 
container.
+
+## Can Trafodion access Hive stored data?
+Trafodion does provide the capability for SQL statements submitted to 
Trafodion to access, join, and aggregate a combination of Trafodion database 
objects, native HBase objects, and Hive tables (via the HCatalog).
+
+## Can we access Trafodion data with MapReduce?
+While theoretically possible since Trafodion data is stored in HBase/HDFS, the 
data would not be easily interpreted due to the encoding mechanisms Trafodion 
employs for transaction performance and efficiency.
+
+Trafodion provides automatic access parallelism without the need for writing 
MapReduce. If the optimized plan calls for parallel execution, the Trafodion 
Master process divides the work among Executive Server Processes (ESPs) to 
perform the work in parallel on behalf of the Master process. The results are 
passed back to the Master for consolidation. 
+
+In some situations where there a highly complex plan specified (for example, 
large n-way joins or aggregations), multiple layers of ESPs may be requested. 
See the diagram below.
+
+<center><img src="images/multi-layer-esps.png"/></center>
+
+## Can Trafodion data be accessed through Hive? Can we publish a Trafodion 
table to HCatalog and query it using Hive?
+While theoretically possible since Trafodion data is stored in HBase/HDFS, the 
data would not be easily interpreted due to the encoding mechanisms Trafodion 
employs for transaction performance and efficiency. 
+
+Trafodion maintains its own catalog for metadata that provides the relational 
abstraction layer for accessing the physical storage layer via SQL commands. 
Trafodion objects are complex as they can have tables, indexes, views, 
constraints, which are represented in Trafodion’s own catalog. HCatalog can 
represent only simple objects like tables or column families currently but does 
not contain support for representing other more complex relational objects.
+
+Alternatively, Trafodion data could be loaded into Hive/HDFS and then accessed 
using Hive specific operations or native MapReduce jobs.
+
+----
+
+# Security
+## How is Database security management supported in Trafodion?
+Currently, Trafodion provides security management based on HBase capabilities. 
There are projects as part of roadmap to provide full GRANT/REVOKE capability 
at the table and schema level for users and roles, along with support for 
directory based authentication.
+
+## Does Trafodion have role-based security authorization?
+Yes, Trafodion supports ANSI GRANT/REVOKE on both an individual user and role 
basis. See Enabling Security Features in Trafodion. For details on the 
GRANT/REVOKE syntax, see the Trafodion SQL Reference Manual (pdf, 3.98 MB).
+
+## What is Trafodion’s security authorization granularity?
+Trafodion supports authorization (that is, privileges) at the system and 
database-object level. System privileges are valid across SQL, such as the 
ability to create schemas and objects. Object privileges include tables, views, 
and other databse objects. Views can be used to restrict access to the subset 
of table rows referenced within the view.
+
+----
+
+# Infrastructure
+## What hardware do I need to run Trafodion? Is it hardware vendor neutral?
+Trafodion is designed to be hosted on vendor neutral, commodity hardware. As 
Trafodion runs on top of HBase and HDFS, a vendor's recommended reference 
architectur such as HP Reference Architecture for Hadoop or similar server 
configuration is recommended as a starting point for a new installation.
+
+## Does Trafodion need to be installed on all the Hadoop cluster nodes?
+Trafodion needs to be installed on all nodes that host an HBase RegionServer. 
Trafodion comes with an install script to make the installation process easy. 
For more information, see the Trafodion installation instructions.
+
+## What does Trafodion software require?
+Trafodion software requires an x86-64 bit hardware platform running RedHat 
Enterprise Linux or CentOS 6.x kernel (64-bit). It supports Cloudera and 
Hortonworks Hadoop distributions; for details, see Supported Hadoop 
Distributions. The software is intended to be Linux and Hadoop distribution 
neutral, but other distributions have not been tested at this time.
+
+## Are there any recommended configurations in terms of nodes, memory, etc.?
+Recommended sizings for Trafodion are still being developed, and vary based on 
the amount of data, anticipated query workload (types, rates/respose times, 
concurrency) and the peak number of supported concurrent connections). 
+
+What’s the process like when we add a new node to the cluster? Does the 
system grow elastically?
+The underlying HBase/HDFS infrastructure supports elastic scalability allowing 
for incremental node expansion, that is, datanode expansion. Trafodion could 
then access the HBase tables (or ‘regions’ of the HBase tables) that now 
span the new node(s). Trafodion services (that is, connection, compiler, 
master, ESP) can be made to leverage these additional nodes by restarting 
Trafodion with a new coniguration.
+
+## Does Trafodion need dedicated hardware?
+Trafodion can run on dedicated hardware, cloud or VM configurations. For best 
and consistent performance, dedicated hardware is recommended where feasible.
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+This page describes the steps you need to perform before installing Trafodion.
+
+# Cluster Requirements
+The following configuration settings have been tested and are known to work 
with the Trafodion installation:
+
+Setting                       | Value
+------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------
+**Hardware Platform**         | x86-64
+**Operating System**          | RedHat Enterprise Linux, 6.x kernel (64 bit) 
or CentOS, 6.x kernel (64 bit)
+**Install User IDs**          | A user ID with passwordless and sudo access. 
Please refer to [Install User ID](#Install User ID) below.
+**Cluster Size**              | A cluster consisting of 1 to N nodes. There is 
currently no upper limit. Two nodes is the recommended minimum, but a single 
node cluster should work.
+**Disk Space**                | Minimum of 20 GB. Please refer to [Checking 
Disk Space](#Checking_Disk_Space) below.
+**Memory**                    | Minimal 1 GB * number of connectivity servers 
(MXOSRVR processes) configured per cluster.
+
+## Checking Disk Space
+### Cloudera Manager
+This step is required for Cloudera distributions only.
+
+Before installing Cloudera Manager, a minimum of 20 GB is needed to support 
the Cloudera management database. Default location: 
**```/var/lib/cloudera-scm-server-db```**. 
+
+Check the available space for **```/var```** as follows:
+
+* Start a putty or VNC terminal window agains the node where Cloudera Manager 
will be installed.
+* As a user with **```root```** privileges, verify that 20 GB of space is 
available to **```/var```**.
+
+    cd /var
+    df -hP
+
+If the **```/var```** space is insufficient, then you can provide a soft link 
to another drive for your Cloudera Manager database.
+
+* Locate a drive with sufficient disk space.
+* Create the soft link.
+
+```
+cd <new drive>  # (e.g. cd /DATA)
+mkdir cloudera-scm-server-db
+chmod 777 cloudera-scm-server-db
+cd /var/lib
+ln -s <new drive>/cloudera-scm-server-db .
+```
+ 
+**Considerations**
+
+* If **```/var```** is a sub-directory in your cluster's root filesystem, then 
the Cloudera Manager database should have sufficient space available.
+* If Cloudera Manager has already been installed and it is showing red for log 
directories, it means that Cloudera Manager was installed using 
**```/var/lib```** and may not have a large enough **```/var```** file system. 
In this case, there is an unsupported script that can be used to move the 
directories. Please refer to the **```clouderaMoveDB.sh```** script in the 
**```installer/tools```** directory, which is created when the installer tar 
file is unpacked. Run **```clouderaMoveDB.sh```** without syntax to display 
help information.
+
+# Security Requirements
+## Install User ID
+The Trafodion installation requires a user ID (referred to as 
**```<sudo-user>```**) with these attributes on all nodes where Trafodion is 
installed:
+
+* **```/etc/sudoers```* on all nodes:
+    * **```sudo```** access — allows the install scripts to run privileged 
commands.
+    * **requiretty** disabled — allows Trafodion install scripts to use 
embedded **```sudo```** commands
+* passwordless ssh to all nodes — allows Trafodion install scripts to 
communicate with remote nodes without prompting for password.
+ 
+Please create a the **```<sudo-user>```** per the practices of your 
environment. For example, you may need to request permission from your 
cluster-management team to obtain this type of access. [Passwordless 
SSH(passwordless-ssh.html) describes how to set up passwordless ssh.
+
+## Configure LDAP Identity Store
+If you plan to enable Trafodion authentication, then you need to have an LDAP 
identity store available to perform authentication. 
+
+The Trafodion installer prompts you to set up an authentication configuration 
file that points to an LDAP server (or servers), which enables security (that 
is, authentication and authorization) in the Trafodion system.
+
+If you wish to manually set up the authentication configuration file and 
enable security, then please refer to [Enabling Security Features in 
Trafodion](enable-secure-trafodion.html).
+
+# PC Installation
+If you are using a Windows PC, then additional PC software may be needed 
throughout the installation process. It is recommended that you pre-install the 
PC software that you need before continuing with the Trafodion installation.
+
+Install the following software:
+
+* putty and puttygen (download from the [PuTTY 
website](http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html))
+* VNC client (download from http://www.realvnc.com)
+* Firefox or Chrome browser
+* SFTP client to transfer files from your PC to the server: WinSCP or FileZilla
+
+# Install Hadoop Distribution
+Trafodion requires that the following Hadoop services are installed:
+
+* HDFS
+* MapReduce
+* ZooKeeper
+* HBase
+* Hive
+
+Please ensure that these services are installed for one of the following 
Hadoop distributions.
+
+<table><tr><td><strong>IMPORTANT</strong><br />Trafodion does not support a 
Hadoop server running on a node that is not part of the Trafodion cluster. You 
must specify the Hadoop nodes to be part of the Trafodion list of nodes during 
the installation of Trafodion (using the <strong><code>--nodes</code></strong> 
parameter). The Trafodion installer needs to run from the same node where you 
installed the Hadoop distribution).</td></tr></table>
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <th>Distribution</th>
+    <th>Version</th>
+    <th>HBase Version</th>
+    <th>Installation</th>
+    <th>Notes</th>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><strong>Cloudera</strong></td>
+    <td>CDH 5.2 or 5.3</td>
+    <td>0.98.6</td>
+    <td>Refer to <a 
href="http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/documentation/core/latest/topics/installation.html";
 target="_blank">CDH 5.3.x Installation and Upgrade Guide</a> for installation 
instructions.</td>
+    <td>
+      <ul>
+        <li>Select <strong>Cloudera Standard</strong> edition.</li>
+        <li>Install using <strong>packages</strong>. Do not install using 
tarballs and parcels. Trafodion does not currently support tarball/parcel 
installation.</li>
+        <li>CDH 5.2 is supported but has not been officially tested with 
Trafodion Release 1.3.</li>
+      </ul>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+     <td><strong>Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP)</strong></td>
+     <td>HDP 2.2</td>
+     <td>0.98.4</td>
+     <td>
+       <ul>
+         <li><strong>Install</strong>: <a 
href="http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/Ambari-1.7.0.0/Ambari_Install_v170/Ambari_Install_v170.pdf";>Ambari
 1.7.0 Install Guide</a></li>
+         <li><strong>Upgrade:</strong> <a 
href="http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/Ambari-1.7.0.0/Ambari_Upgrade_v170/Ambari_Upgrade_v170.pdf";>Ambari
 1.7.0 Upgrade Guide</a></li>
+       </ul>
+     </td>
+     <td></td>
+   </tr>
+</table>
+
+# Validation
+Once the Hadoop distribution has been installed and started, please ensure 
that the required services are running. At this point, you're ready to [Install 
Trafodion](install.html).
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+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
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+This page describes how to install the Trafodion product environment. [Create 
Development Environment](create-dev-environment.html) describes how to create 
the Trafodion Development Test Environment.
+
+The Trafodion product environment is installed using the Trafodion Installer, 
which operates on Trafodion binaries only. Refer to the 
[Download](download.html) page for instructions about how you download/create 
the Trafodion binaries.
+
+# Preparation
+The Trafodion Installer assumes that you've performed the following steps 
before a Trafodion install:
+
+1. **Cluster Requirements**: ensure that you cluster meets the Trafodion 
requirements.
+2. **Security Requirements**: Create the user ID that is used to run the 
Trafodion Installer. Review and configure LDAP, if desired.
+3. **Prepare PC**: install software used when installing Trafodion on your PC.
+4. **Install Hadoop**: Install Hadoop software supported by Trafodion.
+5. **Validate Hadoop**: Validate that required Hadoop services are running.
+
+Please refer to [Install Preparation](install-preparation.html) for 
information about how to perform the steps above.
+
+# Security Considerations 
+You use the following user IDs and passwords during the Trafodion installation.
+
+Logon                              | User ID                    | Password     
               | Description                                         
+-----------------------------------|----------------------------|-----------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------
+Cloudera Manager Web GUI logon | **```admin (default)```**  | **```admin 
(default)```**   | After installing Cloudera, you will be instructed to log on 
to the Cloudera Manager Web GUI. Use the default user ID and password 
(**```admin```**, **```admin```**). If you already had Cloudera installed, 
please use your previously defined user ID and password.
+Ambari Web GUI logon           | **```admin (default)```**  | **```admin 
(default)```**   | After downloading and setting up the Ambari repository, you 
will be instructed to log on to the Ambari Web GUI. Use the default user ID and 
password (**```admin```**, **```admin```**). If you already had Ambari 
installed, please use your previously defined user ID and password.
+User ID with sudo Access       | **```<sudo-username>```**  | 
**```<password>```**        | In the installation steps, you may be instructed 
to use **```sudo```** or **```sudo userid```** access. You will be using your 
user ID, which has been enabled with **```sudo```** access and [passwordless 
ssh](passwordless-ssg.html) to all nodes of the cluster.
+Trafodion Logon                | **```trafodion```**        | **```traf123 
(default)```** | The Trafodion installer **automatically creates** this user 
IDwhen Trafodion is installed. Do not create this user ID manually.
+VNC Server Logon               | **```trafodion```**        | **```traf123 
(default)```** | After installing Trafodion, you will be instructed to log on 
to the VNC server at port 1. Use the **```trafodion```** user ID and 
**```password```**.
+
+# Install Procedure
+## Upgrade
+Follow these steps if you have an older version of Trafodion that you want to 
upgrade:
+ 
+1. *Shutdown Trafodion*: Please refer to [Manage Trafodion](management.html).
+2. *Backup Data*: Backup metadata and user objects. Please refer to 
[Backup/Restore](backuprestore.html).
+3. *Install Trafodion*: The **```trafodion_install```** script automatically 
detects the previous version of Trafodion and performs an upgrade operation, 
including initializing Trafodion, upgrading the metadata, and restarting all 
processes. Please refer to [Installation](#Installation) below for more 
information about **```trafodion_install```**.
+
+    If something goes wrong during the installation, restore your data from 
the backed up objects and repeat the previous step.
+
+<table><tr><td><strong>NOTE</strong>
+  <p>If you are doing an upgrade outside of the installation environment, then 
you will need to restart your services and processes, such as sqlci, the DCS 
server, and the qms servers. If you do not restart those services and 
processes, your system will not work properly.</p>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+## Installation
+
+<table><tr><td><strong>NOTE</strong><br /> If performing an upgrade: Please 
refer to [Upgrading Trafodion](#Upgrading_Trafodion) before 
proceeding.</td></tr></table>
+
+At a high level, the following instructions consist of a single step:
+
+Command                     | User ID                   | Comments
+----------------------------|---------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+**```trafodion_install```** | **```<sudo-username>```** | Installs necessary 
RPMs, creates the **```trafodion```** user ID, sets up passwordless ssh for the 
**```trafodion```** user ID, copies the Trafodion distribution files across the 
cluster, generates startup files, and starts Trafodion, including Database 
Connectivity Services (DCS) (the ODBC/JDBC server), among other things.
+
+
+<table><tr><td>
+  <strong>IMPORTANT</strong>
+  <p>The Trafodion commands should all be done from the first node of the 
cluster. Do not run them from a machine that is not part of the Trafodion 
cluster. Trafodion must be installed on all nodes that host an HBase 
RegionServer (that is, where a supported Hadoop distribution is installed).</p>
+  <p>For example, if Cloudera or Hortonworks is installed on nodes 
<strong><code>n001</code></strong>, <strong><code>n002</code></strong>, and 
<strong><code>n003</code></strong>, then you must install Trafodion on those 
same nodes (<strong><code>--nodes "n001 n002 n003"</code></strong>).</p>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <th width="5%">Step</th>
+    <th width="35%">Description</th>
+    <th width="60%">Commands</th>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+     <td><strong>Download</strong></td>
+     <td>If you haven't done so already, then please download the Trafodion 
software.</td>
+     <td>Please refer to <a href="download.html">Download</a>.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+     <td><strong>Upgrade</strong></td>
+     <td>
+       <p>If you are upgrading to a newer version of Trafodion, copy the 
installation files for the previous version to a directory outside of 
<strong><code>$HOME/trafodion_downloads</code></strong>.</p>
+       <p>For example:</p>
+       <pre>mkdir $HOME/trafodion_downloads_v1.0</pre>
+     </td>
+     <td><pre>cp –r $HOME/trafodion_downloads/* 
$HOME/trafodion_downloads_v1.0
+rm –rf $HOME/trafodion_downloads/*</pre> 
+     </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+     <td><strong>Create <code>trafodion_downloads</code></strong></td>
+     <td>Create the <strong><code>trafodion_downloads</code></strong> 
directory if you have not done so already and place the downloaded 
<strong><code>trafodion-1.1.&lt;n&gt;.tar.gz</code></strong> and 
<strong><code>installer-1.1.&lt;n&gt;_v&lt;num&gt;.tar.gz</code></strong> tar 
files into it.</td>
+     <td>
+       <pre>
+mkdir $HOME/trafodion_downloads
+mv &lt;your-download-path&gt;/trafodion-1.1.&lt;n&gt;.tar.gz 
$HOME/trafodion_downloads
+mv &lt;your-download-path&gt;/installer-1.1.&lt;n&gt;_v&lt;num&gt;.tar.gz 
$HOME/trafodion_downloads
+cd $HOME/trafodion_downloads
+       </pre>
+     </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+     <td><strong>Unpack tar File</strong></td>
+     <td>Untar the downloaded installer file.</td>
+     <td><pre>tar -xzf installer-1.1.&lt;n&gt;_v&lt;num&gt;.tar.gz</pre></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+     <td><strong>Run <code>trafodion_install</code></strong></td>
+     <td>
+        <p>The scripts is run without parameters. Instead, you'll be prompted 
for information.</p>
+        <p><strong>NOTE</strong></p>
+        <p>The trafodion_install script automatically invokes the <a 
href="scanner.html">Trafodion Scanner</a> to check the cluster for attributes 
that commonly cause installation issues, runtime performance problems, and so 
on. Also, various system information is collected for future reference, such as 
to aid with troubleshooting. The installation will abort if any configuration 
errors are discovered. You will need to correct such errors before re-running 
the <strong><code>trafodion_install</code></strong>script.</p>
+     </td>
+     <td>
+       <pre>
+cd installer
+./trafodion_install
+       </pre>
+       <p>Type "accept" to accept the license agreement when prompted.</p>
+       <p>Provide the requested information according to the prompts.</p>
+       <p><strong>NOTE</strong></p>
+       <p>If you choose not to start Trafodion after the installation (that 
is, if you enter <strong><code>N</code></strong> for <strong><code>Start 
Trafodion after install (Y/N)</code></strong>), you will need to manually start 
and initialize Trafodion after <strong><code>trafodion_install</code></strong> 
completes.</p> 
+     </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+     <td><strong><code>trafodion_install</code> Completion</strong></td>
+     <td>Wait for <strong><code>trafodion_install</code></strong> to complete. 
</td>
+     <td><p>You will see the following message:</p><pre>***INFO: Installation 
completed successfully.</pre></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+     <td><strong>Connect</strong></td>
+     <td>Once <strong><code>trafodion_install</code></strong> completes 
without error, your Trafodion system should be up and running.</td>
+     <td>
+        <p>Start a new VNC session using port :1.</p>
+        <p>Log in as the <strong><code>trafodion</code></strong> user with the 
password for the VNC, which is <strong><code>traf123</code></strong> by default 
unless you changed it.</p>
+     </td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+## Start and Initialize
+If you chose not to start Trafodion after the installation, start and 
initialize Trafodion as follows:
+
+    cds
+    sqstart
+    
+    [trafodion@n001 ~]$ sqlci
+    Trafodion Conversational Interface 1.1.0
+    (c) Copyright 2015 Apache Software Foundation
+    >>initialize trafodion ;
+    .
+    .
+    .
+
+## Validate Installation
+Perform a quick sanity check using the Trafodion Conversational Interface 
(**```sqlci```**). Create a table with a couple of records. 
+
+**Example**
+
+    [trafodion@n001 ~]$ sqlci
+    Trafodion Conversational Interface 1.1.0
+    (c) Copyright 2015 Apache Software Foundation
+    >> create table test1 (f1 int, f2 int);
+    
+    --- SQL operation complete.
+    >> insert into test1 values(1,1);
+    
+    --- 1 row(s) inserted.
+    >> insert into test1 values(2,2);
+    
+    --- 1 row(s) inserted.
+    >> select * from test1;
+    
+    F1            F2
+    -----------   -----------
+              1             1
+              2             2
+    
+    --- 2 row(s) selected.
+    >> get tables;
+    
+    Tables in Schema TRAFODION.SEABASE
+    ==================================
+    
+    TEST1
+    
+    --- SQL operation complete.
+    >> exit;
+
+The SQL commands above should run successfully.
+
+## Install Client Software
+Download and install the Trafodion JDBC and/or ODBC drivers on your client 
workstation to be able to connect to Trafodion from a client application. 
Please refer to the [Trafodion Client Installation 
Guide](docs/Trafodion_Client_Installation_Guide.html), which describes how to 
install the JDBC and ODBC drivers, how to connect to Trafodion, and how to run 
sample programs to test the connection.
+
+# Troubleshooting
+Please refer to [Troubleshoot Trafodion 
Installation](install-troubleshoot.html).
+
+# Uninstall
+Please refer to [Unistall Trafodion](uninstall.html).
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+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ 
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ 
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the 
+  License.
+-->
+This page describes ldapcheck, which is a tool that is used to validate the 
Trafodion authentication configuration and attempt to connect to a configured 
LDAP server.
+
+# Usage
+
+```
+ldapcheck  [<option>]...
+<option> ::= --help|-h            display usage information
+             --username=<LDAP-username>
+             --password[=<password>]
+             --primary            Use first configuration
+             --local              Use first configuration
+             --enterprise         Use first configuration
+             --secondary          Use second configuration
+             --remote             Use second configuration
+             --cluster            Use second configuration
+             --verbose            Display non-zero retry counts
+                                       and LDAP errors
+```
+
+# Considerations
+
+* Aliases for primary include enterprise and local. Aliases for secondary 
include cluster and remote. If no configuration is specified, primary is 
assumed.
+* The equals sign is required when supplying a value to username or password.
+* To be prompted for a password value with no echo, specify the password 
argument but omit the equals sign and value.
+* Passwords that contain special characters may need to be escaped if the 
password is specified on the command line or within a script file.
+* If the password keyword is not specified, only the username will be checked. 
The tool can therefore be used to test the LDAP configuration and connection to 
the configured LDAP server(s) without knowing a valid username or password.
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+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ 
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ 
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the 
+  License.
+-->
+This page describes the **```ldapconfigcheck```** tool, which validates the 
syntactic correctness of a Trafodion authentication configuration file. 
Trafodion does not need to be running to run the tool.
+
+# Considerations
+If the configuration filename is not specified, the tool will look for a file 
using environment variables. Those environment variables and the search order 
are:
+
+1. TRAFAUTH_CONFIGFILE
+
+    A fully qualified name is expected.
+2. TRAFAUTH_CONFIGDIR
+
+    Filename **```.traf_authentication_config/```** is appended to the 
specified directory
+3. MY_SQROOT
+
+    **```/sql/scripts/.traf_authentication_config```** is appended to the 
value of **```MY_SQROOT```**.
+    
+# Errors
+One of the following is output when the tool is run. Only the first error 
encountered is reported.
+
+Code             | Text
+-----------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+**```0```**      | File *filename* is valid.
+**```1```**      | File *filename* not found.
+**```2```**      | File: *filename*<br /><br />Invalid attribute name on line 
*line-number*.
+**```3```**      | File: *filename*<br /><br />Missing required value on line 
*line-number*.
+**```4```**      | File: *filename*<br /><br />Value out of range on line 
*line-number*.
+**```5```**      | File: *filename*<br /><br />Open of 
traf_authentication_config file failed.
+**```6```**      | File: *filename*<br /><br />Read of 
traf_authentication_config file failed.
+**```7```**      | No file provided. Either specify a file parameter or verify 
environment variables.
+**```8```**      | TLS was requested in at least one section, but 
TLS_CACERTFilename was not provided.
+**```9```**      | Missing host name in at least one section.<br /><br />Each 
LDAP connection configuration section must provide at least one host name.
+**```10```**     | Missing unique identifier in at least one section.<br /><br 
/>Each LDAP connection configuration section must provide at least one unique 
identifier. 
+**```11```**     | At least one LDAP connection configuration section must be 
specified.
+**```12```**     | Internal error parsing . traf_authentication_config.
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+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the 
+  License.
+-->
+This page describes how you manage the Trafodion development test environment, 
which is intended for people that are contributing to the Trafodion source 
tree. Please refer to [Download](download.html) if you want to try the 
Trafodion product environment.
+
+# Prerequisites
+You must have created the [Trafodion Development 
Environment](create-dev-environment.html) before using the instructions on this 
page.
+
+# Hadoop Enviroment
+## Pre-Existing Hadoop
+If you are doing Trafodion development on a pre-existing Hadoop distribution, 
then do the following:
+
+* **Distribution**: Use the distribution management too. For example: Apache 
Ambari or Cloudera Manager.
+* **Regular Hadoop**: Use the start/stop script for each Hadoop environment.
+
+## Local Hadoop
+Use the following commands to manage the Hadoop environment.
+
+Command                            | Usage
+-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------------
+**```swstartall```**               | Start the complete Hadoop environment.
+**```swstopall```**                | Stops the complete Hadoop environment.
+**```swstatus```**                 | Checks the status of the Hadoop 
environment.
+**```swuninstall_local_hadoop```** | Removes the Hadoop installation.
+
+# Trafodion
+Please refer to [Trafodion Management](management.html).
+
+# New Source Download
+You need to do the following each time you download new source code.
+
+    cd <Trafodion source directory>
+    source ./env.sh
+    cd $MY_SQROOT/etc
+    # delete ms.env, if it exists
+    rm ms.env
+    cd $MY_SQROOT/sql/scripts
+    sqgen
+
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+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ 
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ 
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the 
+  License.
+-->
+This page describes how you manage Trafodion.
+
+# Management Scripts
+The following table provides an overview of the different Trafodion management 
scripts.
+
+Component                             | Start                | Stop            
    | Status
+--------------------------------------|----------------------|---------------------|---------------------
+All of Trafodion                      | **```sqstart```**    | 
**```sqstop```**    | **```sqcheck```**
+DCS (Database Connectivity Services)  | **```dcsstart```**   | 
**```dcsstop```**   | **```dcscheck```**
+REST Server                           | **```reststart```**  | 
**```reststop```**  | —
+LOB Server                            | **```lobstart```**   | 
**```lobstop```**   | —
+RMS Server                            | **```rmsstart```**   | 
**```rmsstop```**   | **```rmscheck```**  
+
+**Example: Start Trafodion**
+
+    cd $MY_SQROOT/sql/scripts
+    sqstart
+    sqcheck
+
+# Validate Trafodion Installation
+You can use **```sqlci```** or **```trafci```** (connects via DCS) to validate 
your installation.
+
+    get schemas;
+    create table table1 (a int);
+    invoke table1;
+    insert into table1 values (1), (2), (3), (4);
+    select * from table1;
+    exit;
+
+Assuming no errors, your installation has been successful. You can start 
working on your modifications.
+
+# Troubleshooting Tips
+If you are not able to start up the environment or if there are problems 
running **```sqlci```** or **```trafci```**, then verify that the all the 
processes are up and running.
+
+* **```swstatus```** should show at 6 java servers and 2 mysql processes. 
+* **```sqcheck```** should indicate all processes are running. 
+
+If processes are not running as expected, then:
+
+* **```sqstop```** to shut down Traodion. If some Trafodion processes do not 
terminate cleanly, then run **```ckillall```**.
+* **```swstopall```** to shut down the Hadoop ecosystem.
+* **```swstartall```** to restart the Hadoop ecosystem.
+* **```sqstart```** to restart Trafodion.
+
+If problems persist please review logs:
+
+* **```$MY_SQROOT/sql/local_hadoop/\*/log```**: Hadoop, HBase, and Hive logs.
+* **```$MY_SQROOT/logs```**: Trafodion logs.
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+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ 
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ 
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the 
+  License.
+-->
+This page will provide information about features that have recently been 
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+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ 
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ 
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the 
+  License.
+-->
+This page describes how to setup passwordless ssh for a Trafodion user.
+
+# Overview
+Please use these commands to enable passwordless ssh access for a user ID; for 
example: **```trafodion```**
+
+You need to define the authorization keys on each node on the instance. To 
simplify this procedure, this procedure starts from scratch; that is, it 
removes the **```ssh```** configuration so that new files can be created. The 
procedure on this page defines what you need to do to set up passwordless ssh 
manually:
+
+* Run all commands from a single node in the instance. This node is labeled 
**master node** in the procedure.
+* The commands will reach out to all other nodes in the instance. You will 
have to provide the correct password manually until the procedure has been 
completed.
+* Ensure that you run the validation step. If passwordless ssh isn't working, 
then you likely missed a step in the procedure; you'll have to start over. 
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+     <td><strong>Note</strong> <br /><br />You run these commands for each 
node in the instance, including the master node; that is, you run these 
commands as well if you are on a single-node instance.
+     </td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+In this procedure, you perform the following steps: 
+
+* Generate the **```~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub```** file.
+* Populate the local **```~/.ssh/authorized_keys```** file. 
+* Copy files to all nodes in the instance.
+* Add **```localhost```** key to each node's **```~/.ssh/known_hosts```** file.
+* Turn on **```NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost```** on each node.
+* Secure the files for passwordless ssh access. 
+* Validate passwordless ssh access. 
+
+The result of the above procedure should be that the content of the 
**```~/.ssh/authorized_keys```** file is the same on all nodes in your instance 
and that the security is set up the same way. This allows you to use ssh to 
login in to any node from any node in the instance without having to specify a 
password. This is key for many scripts and support commands, which assume that 
passwordless ssh is working properly. For example, most support commands uses 
the **```pdsh $MY_NODES```** or **```pdsh $MY_HADOOP_NODES```** command for 
status checks.
+
+# Command Summary
+A summary of the commands used in this procedures to help experienced users:
+
+    # Skip this step if logged in as a user that has run EsgynDB sqenv.sh, 
which defines NODE_LIST.
+    # Modify the NODE_LIST content to list the nodes on which you are 
installing Trafodion.
+    export NODE_LIST="node01.host.com node02.host.com node03.host.com 
node04.host.com node05.host.com"
+    
+    # Get the user ID we're doing this work for. Makes the rest of the 
commands cleaner.
+    user=$(whoami)
+
+    # Generate ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub on each node in the instance
+    for node in $NODE_LIST; do ssh $user@$node "rmdir ~/.ssh; mkdir ~/.ssh; cd 
~/.ssh; echo -e 'y\n' | ssh-keygen -t rsa -N '' -f $~/.ssh/id_rsa"; done
+
+    # Populate ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the master node.
+    for node in $NODE_LIST; do ssh $user@$node "cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub" >> 
~/.ssh/authorized_keys; done
+    
+    # Copy files to all nodes in the instance but the master node.
+    my_node=$(echo $HOSTNAME | cut -d '.' -f 1)
+    for node in $NODE_LIST; do if [ $node <> $my_node ]; then scp 
~/.ssh/authorized_keys ~/.ssh/known_hosts $user@$node:~/.ssh/.; fi; done
+    
+    # Add localhost public key to each node's ~/.ssh/known_hosts file.
+    for node in $NODE_LIST; do ssh $user@$node "echo localhost $(cat 
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub) >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts"; done
+    
+    # Turn on NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost on each node.
+    for node in $NODE_LIST; do ssh $user@$node "echo 
"NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost=yes" >> ~/.ssh/config"; done
+    
+    # Change security of ~/.ssh directory and key files.
+    for node in $NODE_LIST; do ssh $user@$node "chmod 755 ~/.ssh; chmod 600 
~/.ssh/authorized_keys; cd ~/.ssh; chmod 700 .."; done
+
+    # Validate that passwordless ssh works. No password prompts should be 
seen. Try from all or some nodes in the instance.
+    for node in $NODE_LIST; do ssh $user@$node "ls -al /etc/passwd"; done
+
+
+# Detailed Commands
+
+## Define ```NODE_LIST```
+The steps below assumes that the **```NODE_LIST```** environmental variable 
contains the node names onto which Trafodion should be installed. You populate 
this variable using one of the following methods:
+
+1. Invoke the Trafodion **```sqenv.sh```** script, which is present after 
Trafodion has been installed.
+2. Create **```NODE_LIST```** manually; for example:
+
+    export NODE_LIST="node01.host.com node02.host.com node03.host.com 
node04.host.com node05.host.com"
+
+## Generate the ```~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub file``` 
+In this step, you create the authorization key for each node in the instance. 
This key will be located in the **```~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub```** file. Use the 
following commands for each node of the instance: 
+
+    $ user=$(whoami)
+    $ for node in $NODE_LIST; do ssh $user@$node "rmdir ~/.ssh; mkdir ~/.ssh; 
cd ~/.ssh; echo -e 'y\n' | ssh-keygen -t rsa -N '' -f $~/.ssh/id_rsa"; done
+
+## Populate the local ```~/.ssh/authorized_keys file```
+In this step, you populate the **```~/.ssh/authorized_keys```** file on master 
node by copying the content from each node's **```~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub```** file. 
+
+Use the following command string to copy the content of 
**```~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub```** file for each node into the 
**```~/.ssh/authorized_keys```** on the master node:
+
+    $ for node in $NODE_LIST; do ssh $user@$node "cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub" >> 
~/.ssh/authorized_keys; done
+
+## Copy Files to All Nodes in the Instance
+In this step, you copy the **```~/.ssh/authorized_keys```** and 
**```~/.ssh/known_host```** files to all other nodes in the instance. Use the 
following commands to copy the files to all nodes in the instance '''except''' 
the master node: 
+
+    $ my_node=$(echo $HOSTNAME | cut -d '.' -f 1) 
+    $ for node in $NODE_LIST; do if [ $node <> $my_node ]; then scp 
~/.ssh/authorized_keys ~/.ssh/known_hosts $user@$node:~/.ssh/.; fi; done
+
+## Add ```localhost``` key to each node's ```~/.ssh/known_hosts file```
+In this step, you add the public key for **```localhost```** to the 
**```~/.ssh/known_hosts```** file
+
+    $ for node in $NODE_LIST; do ssh $user@$node "echo localhost $(cat 
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub) >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts"; done
+
+## Turn on ```NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost```
+In this step, you turn the **```NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost```** on in 
each node in the instance.
+
+    $ for node in $NODE_LIST; do ssh $user@$node "echo 
"NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost=yes" >> ~/.ssh/config"; done
+
+## Secure the Files for Passwordless ```ssh``` Access
+In this step, you change the security of the **```~/.ssh/authorized_keys```** 
file and the **```~/.ssh```** directory so that passwordless ssh will be 
allowed. Use the following commands for each node of the instance: 
+
+    $ for node in $NODE_LIST; do ssh $user@$node "chmod 755 ~/.ssh; chmod 600 
~/.ssh/authorized_keys; cd ~/.ssh; chmod 700 .."; done
+
+## Validate Passwordless ssh Access 
+Test by starting a remote shell on the different nodes in the instance — no 
password should be necessary.  Be sure to check **```ssh```** access to the 
node itself as well. Use the following command string to check that you can 
reach each node in the instance without having to provide a password: 
+
+    $ for node in $NODE_LIST; do ssh $user@$node "ls -al /etc/passwd"; done
+
+Try the validation command string from all or some nodes in the instance.
+
+# Additional Information
+Passwordless ssh isn't considered secure in some installations. We don't have 
a solution for this situation yet.
+

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+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
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+ 
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the 
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+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the 
+  License.
+-->
+The following table lists the default ports used by the different Trafodion 
components plus the configuration file and configuration attribute associated 
with each port setting.
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+     <th>Default Port</th>
+     <th>Configuration File</th>
+     <th>Configuration Entry</th>
+     <th>Required</th>
+     <th>Range</th>
+     <th>Protocol</th>
+     <th>Comment</th>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><strong>4200</strong></td>
+    <td><code>rest-site.xml</code></td>
+    <td><code>trafodion.rest.port</code></td>
+    <td>Yes</td>
+    <td>1</td>
+    <td>REST</td>
+    <td>Trafodion REST Server.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><strong>4201</strong></td>
+    <td><code>rest-site.xml</code></td>
+    <td><code>trafodion.rest.https.port</code></td>
+    <td>Yes</td>
+    <td>1</td>
+    <td>HTTPS</td>
+    <td>Trafodion REST Server (HTTPS).</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><strong>23400</strong></td>
+    <td><code>dcs-site.xml</code></td>
+    <td><code>dcs.master.port</code></td>
+    <td>Yes</td>
+    <td>n</td>
+    <td>binary</td>
+    <td>Start of Trafodion DCS port range. (37800 for Trafodion 1.1)</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><strong>24400</strong></td>
+    <td><code>dcs-site.xml</code></td>
+    <td><code>dcs.master.info.port</code></td>
+    <td>Yes</td>
+    <td>1</td>
+    <td>HTTP</td>
+    <td>DCS master web GUI. (40010 for Trafodion 1.1)</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><strong>24410</strong></td>
+    <td><code>dcs-site.xml</code></td>
+    <td><code>dcs.server.info.port</code></td>
+    <td>Yes</td>
+    <td>n</td>
+    <td>HTTP</td>
+    <td>Start of range for DCS server web GUIs. (40020 for Trafodion 1.1)</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><strong>50030</strong></td>
+    <td><code>mapred-site.xml</code></td>
+    <td><code>mapred.job.tracker.http.address</code></td>
+    <td>No</td>
+    <td>1</td>
+    <td>HTTP</td>
+    <td>MapReduce Job Tracker web GUI.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><strong>50070</strong></td>
+    <td><code>hdfs-site.xml</code></td>
+    <td><code>dfs.http.address</code></td>
+    <td>No</td>
+    <td>1</td>
+    <td>HTTP</td>.
+    <td>HDFS Name Node web GUI.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><strong>50075</strong></td>
+    <td><code>hdfs-site.xml</code></td>
+    <td><code>dfs.datanode.http.address</code></td>
+    <td>No</td>
+    <td>1</td>
+    <td>HTTP</td>.
+    <td>HDFS Data Node web GUI.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><strong>50090</strong></td>
+    <td><code>hdfs-site.xml</code></td>
+    <td><code>dfs.secondary.http.address</code></td>
+    <td>No</td>
+    <td>1</td>
+    <td>HTTP</td>.
+    <td>HDFS Secondary Name Node web GUI.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><strong>60010</strong></td>
+    <td><code>hbase-site.xml</code></td>
+    <td><code>hbase.master.info.port</code></td>
+    <td>No</td>
+    <td>1</td>
+    <td>HTTP</td>.
+    <td>HBase Master web GUI.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><strong>60030</strong></td>
+    <td><code>hbase-site.xml</code></td>
+    <td><code>hbase.regionserver.info.port</code></td>
+    <td>No</td>
+    <td>1</td>
+    <td>HTTP</td>.
+    <td>HBase Region Server web GUI.</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<div class="alert alert-dismissible alert-info">
+  <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&close;</button>
+  <p style="color:black">There are two port ranges used by Trafodion. <ul><li 
style="color:black">23400 is a range, to allow multiple mxosrvr processes on 
each node. Allow a range of a few ports, enough to cover all the servers per 
node that are listed in the "servers" file in the DCS configuration 
directory.</li> <li style="color:black">24410 is a range as well, enough to 
cover the DCS servers per node, usually 1 or 2.</li></ul></p>
+<p style="color:black">If you use Trafodion 1.1, then the older port numbers 
are 37800 and 40010.</p>
+<p style="color:black">On top of that you would need the ports required by 
your Hadoop distribution. Most of this information comes from a script to 
sand-box a development install, including the major ports used. The script's 
name is 
<strong><code>trafodion/core/sqf/sql/scripts/install_local_hadoop</code></strong>.</p>
+  <p style="color:black">Although not all the ports will be used on every node 
of the cluster, you would need to open most of them for all the nodes in the 
cluster that have Trafodion, HBase or HDFS servers on them.</p>
+</div>
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+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ 
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ 
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the 
+  License.
+-->
+
+Presentation                                               | Description
+-----------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------
+**[DTM Architecture](presentations/dtm-architecture.pdf)** | In-depth 
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+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ 
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ 
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the 
+  License.
+-->
+This page will describe how to get going with Trafodion.
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+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+This is the initial source-only release of the Apache Trafodion (incubating) 
project.
+
+Build instructions are available 
[here](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=61316378).
+
+# Supported Platforms
+The following platforms are supported in this release.
+
+<span>
+  <table>
+    <tr>
+      <td>**Operating Systems**</td>
+      <td>CentOS 6.5 -- 6.7</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td>**Hadoop Distributions**</td>
+      <td>Hortonworks distribution HDP 2.0</td>
+     </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td>**Java Version**</td>
+      <td>JDK 1.7.0_67 or newer</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td>**HBase Version**</td>
+      <td>HBase 0.94.x</td>
+    </tr>
+  </table>
+</span>
+
+# Enhancements
+
+This release contains the following new features.
+
+<span>
+  <table>
+    <tr>
+      <th>Category</th>
+      <th>Feature</th>
+      <th>Defect ID</th>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td>**SQL**</td>
+      <td>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Foreign key (referential integrity), check, and unique 
constraints in addition to primary key and not null constraints.</li>
+          <li>Stored Procedures in Java (SPJs) (not yet fully tested).</li>
+          <li>User-Defined Functions (UDFs) written in C (not yet fully 
tested).</li>
+          <li>ACID properties apart from failure recovery.</li>
+          <li>Transactional atomicity and consistency provided by the standard 
two-phased commit protocol with presumed abort semantics, supporting commit and 
rollback.</li>
+          <li>Serializability based on a Multi-Version Concurrency Control 
(MVCC) algorithm in HBase-trx.</li>
+          <li>Distributed/global transaction support across the cluster, 
including transaction propagation between SQL components.</li>
+          <li>Support for multithreaded SQL clients.</li>
+        </ul>
+      </td>
+      <td></td>
+    </tr>
+  </table>
+</span>
+
+# Fixes
+
+## 0.8.0
+Fixes to the Trafodion ODBC driver for Windows and the installer, which 
handles the installation of the Trafodion software. This release also includes 
performance fixes and cleanup to the Trafodion software code.
+
+## 0.8.1
+Release 0.8.1 provides these fixes to the Trafodion installer:
+
+* An updated license agreement in the installer.
+* Fix to the installation problem noted in [Launchpad Question 
#250671](https://answers.launchpad.net/trafodion/+question/250671).
+
+## 0.8.2
+Release 0.8.2 has a corrected license file in the installer.
+
+## 0.8.3
+Release 0.8.3 contains fixes to more than 35 critical and high defects, which 
were filed through [Launchpad](https://bugs.launchpad.net/trafodion/), and 
includes some performance enhancements based on DC and YCSB benchmarks. Native 
Expressions and Transaction Manager Recovery were disabled in order to avoid 
two critical issues. Those issues will be addressed in an upcoming release.
+
+# Known Issues
+
+## sqlci prints no banner or prompt when used in a su session
+
+**Defect:** [1329001](https://bugs.launchpad.net/trafodion/+bug/1329001)
+
+**Symptom:** <code>sqlci</code> hangs and is missing output after 
“<code>su</code>” command.
+
+**Cause:** The <code>sqlci</code> program may appear hung (producing no 
output) when you use the “<code>su</code>” command to switch to another 
user. This is caused by a permission problem in Linux, making the standard 
output of <code>sqlci</code> disappear.
+
+**Solution:** There are two possible workarounds:
+
+1. Create a new session for the changed user; for example: with the 
<code>ssh</code> or <code>xterm</code> commands, or
+2. Invoke the program like this: <code>sqlci | cat</code>
+
+## Getting TM error 97 when tables split or get moved
+
+**Defect:** [1274651](https://bugs.launchpad.net/trafodion/+bug/1274651)
+
+**Symptom:** HBase Region Splits, Load Balancing, and Error 97.
+
+**Cause:** As part of an HBase environment’s ongoing operations (and based 
on the policies configured for the HBase environment), an HBase region can 
either get split (into two daughter regions) or moved to a different region 
server. (Please see the blog: 
[http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hbase-region-splitting-and-merging/](http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hbase-region-splitting-and-merging/).)
 If that happens when a Trafodion transaction is active (and operates on rows 
within the region that is being split or load-balanced), then a subsequent 
transaction commit operation by the application might encounter an error 97. 
Please note that under such conditions the Trafodion Transaction Manager will 
abort the transaction and will preserve the integrity of the database.
+
+**Solution:** To minimize disruptions when this happens, we suggest that you 
use one or more of the following approaches:
+
+<ol>
+  <li>Enhance your JDBC application logic to retry when an error 97 is 
returned for a commit operation.</li>
+  <li>Update the HBase configuration to reduce the times when such disruptions 
happen. It involves updates to some properties that can be set in 
<code>hbase-site.xml</code> (or via the manageability interface of your Hadoop 
distribution).</li>
+    <ul>
+      <li>Set the maximum file size of an HBase Region to 100 GB. For example, 
set the value of the property <code>hbase.hregion.max.filesize</code> to 
<code>107374182400</code>.</li>
+      <li><p>Set the HBase region split policy to 
'<code>ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy</code>'. For example, set the value of the 
property <code>hbase.regionserver.region.split.policy</code> to 
<code>org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy</code>.</p>
 
+          <p><strong>NOTE</strong>: The split policy should already be set to 
'<code>onstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy</code>' by the Trafodion installer.</p>
+          <p><strong>Summary</strong></p>
+          <p>
+             <span>
+               <table>
+                 <tr>
+                   <th>Property</th>
+                   <th>Value</th>
+                 </tr>
+                 <tr>
+                   <td><code>hbase.hregion.max.filesize</code></td>
+                   <td><code>107374182400</code></td>
+                 </tr>
+                 <tr>
+                   <td><code>hbase.regionserver.region.split.policy</code></td>
+                   
<td><code>org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy</code></td>
+                 </tr>
+               </table>
+            </span>
+            More information: 
[http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hbase-region-splitting-and-merging/](http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hbase-region-splitting-and-merging/)
+          </p>
+       </li>
+    </ul>
+    <li><p>Disable HBase Region Load Balancing. Use the HBase shell command 
balance_switch false to disable the movement of a region from one server to 
another.</p>
+        <p><strong>Example</strong></p>
+        <pre>
+hbase shell
+hbase(main):002:0> balance_switch false
+true  -- Output will be the last setting of the balance_switch value
+0 row(s) in 0.0080 seconds
+        </pre> 
+    </li>
+    <li>
+    Pre-split the table into multiple regions by using the <code>SALT USING n 
PARTITIONS</code> clause when creating the table. The number of partitions that 
you specify could be a function of the number of region servers present in the 
HBase cluster. Here is a simple example in which the table INVENTORY is 
pre-split into four regions when created:
+    <pre>
+CREATE TABLE INVENTORY
+  (
+    ITEM_ID       INT UNSIGNED NO DEFAULT NOT NULL
+  , ITEM_TYPE     INT UNSIGNED NO DEFAULT NOT NULL
+  , ITEM_COUNT    INT UNSIGNED NO DEFAULT NOT NULL
+  , PRIMARY KEY (ITEM_ID ASC)
+  )  SALT USING 4 PARTITIONS
+  ;    </pre>
+    </li>
+</ol>

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+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+This is the source-only release of the Apache Trafodion (incubating) project. 
This release provides support for HBase 0.98 and many new product features.
+
+Build instructions are available 
[here](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=61316378).
+
+# Supported Platforms
+The following platforms are supported in this release.
+
+<span>
+  <table>
+    <tr>
+      <td>**Operating Systems**</td>
+      <td>CentOS 6.5 -- 6.7</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td>**Hadoop Distributions**</td>
+      <td>Cloudera CDH distribution 5.1 and Hortonworks distribution HDP 
2.1</td>
+     </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td>**Java Version**</td>
+      <td>JDK 1.7.0_67 or newer</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td>**HBase Version**</td>
+      <td>HBase 0.98.x</td>
+    </tr>
+  </table>
+</span>
+
+# Enhancements
+
+This release contains the following new features.
+
+<span>
+  <table>
+    <tr>
+      <th>Category</th>
+      <th>Feature</th>
+      <th>Defect ID</th>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td>**Performance**</td>
+      <td>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Move to HBase 0.98.</li>
+          <li>Significant improvements in benchmarks over Trafodion 0.8.3:</li>
+            <ul>
+              <li>YCSB</li>
+              <li>Debit/Credit</li>
+              <li>Order Entry</li>
+              <li>Atomics</li>
+            </ul>
+        </ul>
+      </td>
+      <td></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td>**Infrastructure and High Availability**</td>
+      <td>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Support on newer Hadoop distributions:
+            <ul>
+              <li>Cloudera CDH 5.1</li>
+              <li>Hortonworks HDP 2.1</li>              
+            </ul>
+          </li>
+          <li>Better integration with HBase:
+            <ul>
+              <li>Use of coprocessors</li>
+              <li>Use of HLOG (HBase Write Ahead Log)</li>
+            </ul>
+          </li>
+          <li>Recovery from catastrophic HBase failures.</li>
+        </ul>
+      </td>
+      <td></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td>**Database and Query Performance**</td>
+      <td>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Improvement in scan performance:
+            <ul>
+              <li>Tuning Degree of Parallelism</li>
+              <li>Tuning scan buffer size</li>
+            </ul>
+          </li>
+          <li>Prefetch</li>
+          <li>Enhancements in JNI interface</li>
+          <li>Improved partitioning for salted tables</li>
+          <li>Push down predicates to HBase layer</li>
+          <li>Enhancement in data movement/message traffic by sending 
compressed (internal format) data from one operator to another</li>
+          <li>Improved memory usage</li>
+          <li>Improvements to query compile time through embedded 
compilers</li>
+          <li>Improvements in performance of update statistics feature</li>
+        </ul>
+      </td>
+      <td></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td>**Database Movement and Connectivity**</td>
+      <td>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Bulk Loader</li>
+          <li>Support for compression in ODBC drivers</li>
+        </ul>
+      </td>
+      <td></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td>**Security**</td>
+      <td>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Support for Grant/Revoke</li>
+        </ul>
+      </td>
+      <td></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td>**Stability**</td>
+      <td>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Fixes for 140+ defects.</li>
+        </ul>
+      </td>
+      <td></td>
+    </tr>
+  </table>
+</span>
+
+# Fixes
+
+This release contains fixes to 140 defects. Those defects were filed through 
[Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/trafodion/+milestone/r1.1).
+
+# Known Issues
+
+## Getting TM error 97 when tables split or get moved
+
+**Defect:** [1274651](https://bugs.launchpad.net/trafodion/+bug/1274651)
+
+**Symptom:** HBase Region Splits, Load Balancing, and Error 97.
+
+**Cause:** As part of an HBase environment’s ongoing operations (and based 
on the policies configured for the HBase environment), an HBase region can 
either get split (into two daughter regions) or moved to a different region 
server. (Please see the blog: 
[http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hbase-region-splitting-and-merging/](http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hbase-region-splitting-and-merging/).)
 If that happens when a Trafodion transaction is active (and operates on rows 
within the region that is being split or load-balanced), then a subsequent 
transaction commit operation by the application might encounter an error 97. 
Please note that under such conditions the Trafodion Transaction Manager will 
abort the transaction and will preserve the integrity of the database.
+
+**Solution:** To minimize disruptions when this happens, we suggest that you 
use one or more of the following approaches:
+
+<ol>
+  <li>Enhance your JDBC application logic to retry when an error 97 is 
returned for a commit operation.</li>
+  <li>Update the HBase configuration to reduce the times when such disruptions 
happen. It involves updates to some properties that can be set in 
<code>hbase-site.xml</code> (or via the manageability interface of your Hadoop 
distribution).</li>
+    <ul>
+      <li>Set the maximum file size of an HBase Region to 100 GB. For example, 
set the value of the property <code>hbase.hregion.max.filesize</code> to 
<code>107374182400</code>.</li>
+      <li><p>Set the HBase region split policy to 
'<code>ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy</code>'. For example, set the value of the 
property <code>hbase.regionserver.region.split.policy</code> to 
<code>org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy</code>.</p>
 
+          <p><strong>NOTE</strong>: The split policy should already be set to 
'<code>onstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy</code>' by the Trafodion installer.</p>
+          <p><strong>Summary</strong></p>
+          <p>
+             <span>
+               <table>
+                 <tr>
+                   <th>Property</th>
+                   <th>Value</th>
+                 </tr>
+                 <tr>
+                   <td><code>hbase.hregion.max.filesize</code></td>
+                   <td><code>107374182400</code></td>
+                 </tr>
+                 <tr>
+                   <td><code>hbase.regionserver.region.split.policy</code></td>
+                   
<td><code>org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy</code></td>
+                 </tr>
+               </table>
+            </span>
+            More information: 
[http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hbase-region-splitting-and-merging/](http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hbase-region-splitting-and-merging/)
+          </p>
+       </li>
+    </ul>
+    <li><p>Disable HBase Region Load Balancing. Use the HBase shell command 
balance_switch false to disable the movement of a region from one server to 
another.</p>
+        <p><strong>Example</strong></p>
+        <pre>
+hbase shell
+hbase(main):002:0> balance_switch false
+true  -- Output will be the last setting of the balance_switch value
+0 row(s) in 0.0080 seconds
+        </pre> 
+    </li>
+    <li>
+    Pre-split the table into multiple regions by using the <code>SALT USING n 
PARTITIONS</code> clause when creating the table. The number of partitions that 
you specify could be a function of the number of region servers present in the 
HBase cluster. Here is a simple example in which the table INVENTORY is 
pre-split into four regions when created:
+    <pre>
+CREATE TABLE INVENTORY
+  (
+    ITEM_ID       INT UNSIGNED NO DEFAULT NOT NULL
+  , ITEM_TYPE     INT UNSIGNED NO DEFAULT NOT NULL
+  , ITEM_COUNT    INT UNSIGNED NO DEFAULT NOT NULL
+  , PRIMARY KEY (ITEM_ID ASC)
+  )  SALT USING 4 PARTITIONS
+  ;    </pre>
+    </li>
+</ol>

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