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OpenText Vertica 23.3 – the Smarter Data Lakehouse

Posted July 31, 2023 by Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager

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Unveiling the Most Recent Version of the Vertica Grafana Data Source Plugin

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
October 12, 2023

With over 380K downloads, the Vertica Grafana Data Source plugin just got an upgrade! The plugin was migrated from the deprecated older Grafana toolkit to align with Grafana's new Create-Plugin tool. This accelerates the plugin development with their modern build set up that requires no additional configuration. Additionally, the Vertica SQL Go driver received an...
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Setting Session Authorization to Troubleshoot

Sruthi Anumula, Senior Database Support Engineer
September 29, 2023

There are possible scenarios in which a dbadmin would want to run queries as another user to troubleshoot or test. You can use SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION to impersonate another user and run queries. Let's understand this with an example. Here we create a user named test, resource pool named userpool, and make this a default...

Vertica Quick Tip: Projection Create Types

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
April 2, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. The DDL produced by the EXPORT_OBJECTS function typically contains a create type for a projection. In the above example the create type is L for “Lazy”, meaning that I inserted data into the table when no projections existed yet. Here is a list of the projection create...
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Vertica Wins First Place for Edge-Based Analytics at University of Central Arkansas Raspberry Pi Bakeoff

Tim Donar
April 2, 2018

We had the opportunity to enter our Vertica flight tracking demo at the University of Central Arkansas’s university raspberry pi bakeoff. We won first place, competing against a number of other raspberry pi-based projects! For more information on how to use Vertica to track commercial aircraft in near real time, read Mark Whalley’s blog series...