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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: How old am I?

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
April 3, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. The AGE_IN_YEARS function returns the difference in years between two dates, expressed as an integer. This function is very useful when I forget how old I am or how old my wife is being that today is her birthday. Have Fun!
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Dynamic Row and Column Access Policies

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
April 3, 2018

This blog post was authored by Serge Bonte. Vertica’s row and column access policies can be used to provide extra security on data in your tables. These policies are well covered in Best Practices for Creating Access Policies in Vertica and Dynamic Row and Column Access Policies. In this blog, we will explore how dynamic...

Vertica Quick Tip: Monitoring CPU Usage

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
April 3, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. The V_MONITOR.CPU_USAGE system table records the CPU usage history by node. I can easily find the top 5 highest average CPU usage on my cluster in the previous 24 hours: Have Fun!

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