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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...

Superfast Table Copy (Revisited): Quick Tip

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
June 6, 2018

Jim Knicely authored this tip. You learned from a Vertica Quick Tip back on 02/07/2018 that Vertica has the lightweight, in-memory COPY_TABLE function. This awesome function lets us copy huge tables in less than a second. I wanted to revisit this awesome feature to point out that when using the COPY_TABLE command, if the target...

What’s New in 9.1: Voltage SecureData Integration

Gary Gray, Principal Information Developer
June 6, 2018

Vertica Version 9.1 introduces a new integration with Voltage SecureData. This feature lets you use encryption to protect sensitive data within your Vertica database. It works within your existing database schema and clients. You can even automate data decryption. This automation makes decryption transparent and removes the need to change your existing SQL queries. What...