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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...

What are your Data Loading Preferences?

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
July 30, 2018

We’re back with our newest product management survey for this summer! This time we’re asking about how you load your data – everything from the ETL tools you use to how you manage your information. The answers you provide will help us fit Vertica into your infrastructure in a way that is ideal for your...

Comparing Two Times: Quick Tip

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
July 30, 2018

Jim Knicely authored this tip. There are several cool built-in functions that you can use to compare two times. Have fun!

Avoid a Division by Zero Error with the NULLIF and NULLIFZERO Functions: Quick Tip

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
July 30, 2018

Jim Knicely authored this tip. The NULLIF built-in Vertica function compares two expressions. If the expressions are not equal, the function returns the first expression. If the expressions are equal, the function returns NULL. The NULLIFZERO built-in Vertica function evaluates to NULL if the value in the column is 0. Both come in handy when...

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