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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...

Improve the Efficiency of Mergeout on Wide Tables

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
February 20, 2018

This blog post was co-authored by Xiao Ling and Jim Kelley. Introduction When resource pools were first introduced to Vertica, the average computer had a lot less memory than it does today. The default memory size for the Tuple Mover resource pool, 200 MB, reflects the more limited resources of that period. As hardware and...

Vertica Quick Tip: Renaming a View

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
February 20, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. You are probably aware that you can rename a table using the ALTER TABLE … RENAME command. But you might not know that you can just as easily rename a database view using a very similar command! Have fun!