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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...

Introducing the VerticaPy Library for Jupyter Notebooks

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
June 21, 2018

One of the coolest things about working at Vertica is our amazing intern program, which often leads to full-time hires. Last year, the VerticaPy library, also known as vpython, was started as an internship project by Badr Ouali. A year later, he works for Vertica full time and has seen his project through into an...
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Be Careful with the Sequence CACHE Value

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
June 21, 2018

Jim Knicely authored this tip. The default session cache for a sequence is 250,000. Although you can change the cache value of a sequence, setting the value too low can adversely affect performance! Note that it took 45 seconds to generate 10,000 new sequence values on a 3-node Vertica cluster where sequence cache was 5,...