We saw how to create a Redshift cluster in Chapter 8, Creating Datasources from Redshift, we won't go through the steps again. For our vegetable contest project, we create a vegetable cluster and a vegetablesdb database. Wait till the endpoint for the cluster is ready and the endpoint is defined, and then connect to your Redshift database via this Psql command:
$ psql --host=vegetables.cenllwot8v9r.us-east-1.redshift.amazonaws.com --port=5439 --username=alexperrier --password --dbname=vegetablesdb
Once connected to the database, create the following table with this SQL query:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS tweets ( id BIGINT primary key, screen_name varchar(255), veggie varchar(255), text varchar(65535));
Note that there ...
