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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...

Vertica Quick Tip: A Truly Unique Constraint

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
January 29, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. According to the ANSI standards SQL:92, SQL:1999, and SQL:2003, a UNIQUE constraint should disallow duplicate non-NULL values, but allow multiple NULL values. A Unique Constraint in Vertica does just that! But what if I do not want to allow more than one NULL value? Well, there’s a...

What’s New in Vertica 9.0.1: S3 Backup Encryption

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
January 29, 2018

This blog post was authored by James Kelley. Amazon S3 offers flexibility, efficiency, and scale. But does it offer security? With the release of Vertica 9.0.1, Vertica offers users the ability to encrypt their backups to S3 with server-side encryption. Vertica supports the following forms of S3 encryption: Server-Side Encryption with Amazon S3-Managed Keys (SSE-S3)...
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What’s New in Management Console 9.0.1

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
January 25, 2018

This blog post was authored by Lisa Donaghue. Vertica 9.0.1 introduces Management Console (MC) improvements to cloud monitoring. Tag AWS Instances Management Console with Provisioning, available on the AWS Marketplace, includes a Cluster Creation wizard to provision databases on AWS resources. With Vertica 9.0.1, you can tag instances as you create them through the Cluster...

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Vertica Quick Tip: Lightning Fast Text Search

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
January 25, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. Searching the contents of a sizeable CHAR, VARCHAR, LONG VARCHAR, VARBINARY, or LONG VARBINARY field within a table to locate a specific keyword can be quite time consuming. Especially when dealing in Big Data. Fortunately, Vertica includes a text indexing feature which allows you to query that...
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Vertica Quick Tip: Generating a Random String

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
January 24, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. We saw in a previous Vertica Quick Tip that we can create a SQL function that generates random dates. How about one that generates random strings? Have fun!

Loading in Eon Mode

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
January 23, 2018

This blog was co-authored by Yuanzhe Bei, Ryan Roelke, Amin Saeidi, Soniya Shah, and Natalia Stavisky. This blog was updated in July 2018. Overview As of Vertica 9.1.x, you can operate your database in Eon Mode. Eon Mode separates the computational processes from the storage layer of your database. Deployment of Eon Mode is limited...

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Vertica Quick Tip: Which Rows Will Commit?

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
January 23, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. Did you ever update a bunch of rows in a table, then forget which ones you changed? Fearing you might have updated an incorrect record, you might have to roll back and start again. Or, in Vertica you can first check which records have been modified prior...

Vertica Quick Tip: Date Arithmetic with Intervals

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
January 22, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. In the last Vertica Quick Tip we saw how easy date arithmetic can be. Well, it can be even easier with Intervals! What is today’s, yesterday’s and tomorrow’s date? Again, you’re not limited to whole days! You can also easily add and subtract partial days (i.e. hours,...

Virtual DataGals Kick Off

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
January 22, 2018

This blog post was authored by Crystal Farley (North). Last week, the virtual chapter of DataGals started with their kick off event: Come here, go anywhere! Joy King, VP of Product Management, Product Marketing, and Field Engagement for Vertica talked about her experience and journey in her career. Joy has been with the company for...

Vertica AWS Eon Mode Beta Provisioning with Management Console

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
January 18, 2018

This blog post was co-authored by Michael Hua and Soniya Shah. As of Vertica 9.0.x, you can operate your database in Eon Mode Beta. Doing this separates the computational processes from the storage layer of your database, enabling rapid scaling of resources to accommodate variable workloads. This post describes how you can provision a Vertica...

Vertica Quick Tip: Date Arithmetic

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
January 18, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. Date arithmetic in Vertica is extremely easy! What is today’s, yesterday’s and tomorrow’s date? But you’re not limited to whole days! You can also easily add and subtract partial days (i.e. hours, minutes and seconds)! Have Fun!

Vertica Quick Tip: Avoid Using Functions on Very Large Data Sets

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
January 17, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. You can store billions and billions and billions (i.e. a lot) of records in your Vertica tables. When querying these large data sets, try to avoid using database functions like TO_DATE, TO_CHAR, NVL, etc. when unnecessary. A table named BIG_DATE_TABLE has 1 billion rows and a column...