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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’s Kathy Taylor is Honored by the Carroll Center for the Blind

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
June 8, 2018

  Positive attitude   Education   Passion   Determination   Teamwork   According to Jay Blake, founder of Follow a Dream auto racing, those are the tools you need to overcome obstacles and be successful. More on that later. On June 7, The Carroll Center for the Blind inducted Micro Focus’s own Kathy Taylor into...

Important: gcc and Ubuntu 16.04 Incompatibility

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
June 8, 2018

Vertica 9.0.1-9 and later 9.0 hotfixes now support Ubuntu 16.04. However, Ubuntu 16.04 ships with a compiler that is incompatible with the Vertica C++ SDK. To compile UDxs on this platform, you must install packages for 4.8 compatibility: $ sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8 $ sudo apt-get install g++-4.8 $ cd /usr/bin $ sudo ln -s...