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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

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

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 Quick Tip: Use the Overlay Function to Easily Insert a String Into Another String

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. The OVERLAY function returns a VARCHAR value representing a string having had a substring replaced by another string. Have Fun!

What’s New in Vertica 9.1: Precision-Recall Curve and F1-Score Machine Learning Evaluation Functions

This blog post was authored by Ginger Ni. The precision-recall curve is a measure for evaluating binary classifiers. It is a basic measure derived from the confusion matrix. In Vertica 9.1, we provide a new machine learning evaluation function PRC() for calculating precision and recall values from the results of binary classifiers. Along with the...