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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...

The Case of Object Names: Quick Tip

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
July 11, 2018

Jim Knicely authored this tip. When creating objects in Vertica (i.e., tables), Vertica preserves the “case” of the object name in the catalog meta-data exactly as you ask. dbadmin=> SELECT table_name FROM tables WHERE table_name ILIKE '%lower_case%'; table_name ------------ lower_case (1 row) dbadmin=> DROP TABLE lower_case; DROP TABLE dbadmin=> CREATE TABLE LOWER_CASE (c1 INT); CREATE...