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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...
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Configuring tcp Idle Settings for Long Running Idle Sessions

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
August 14, 2017

This blog post was authored by Soniya Shah. Important: For all recommendations to changing setting values, you must change the settings on all nodes in the cluster. It is not advisable to have different settings on different nodes. Have you ever encountered one of the following types of errors? With each of these errors, the...

How to Publish Data Collector Tables to Apache Kafka

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
August 10, 2017

This blog post was authored by Serge Bonte. You are probably familiar with the Vertica Data Collector (DC) and have used the granular information it collects to monitor and optimize Vertica deployments. A common challenge is that Data Collector keeps only a portion of that information—controlled by retention policies —in the internal DC tables before...

View Privileges

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
August 8, 2017

This blog post was authored by Soniya Shah. This set of examples shows the privileges a user needs for various operations related to views, including creating and querying. A view is a virtual table based on the result set of a SQL statement, also called a SQL query. To select from a view, you need...

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Geospatial Analysis on Shapefile of Longitude and Latitude Data Using Vertica: Hurricane Bonnie

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
August 7, 2017

This blog post was authored by Ginger Ni. Like any natural disaster, hurricanes can leave behind extensive damage to life and property. The question asked by NGOs, government agencies, and insurance companies is, "How can we predict the locations where a storm will inflict the most damage?" Modern spatial analysis enables us to predict the...

What’s New in Vertica 8.1.1: Backup to Amazon S3

James Kelley
August 3, 2017

As more businesses move their infrastructure to cloud-based and hybrid environments, Vertica has kept pace. In version 8.1.1, Vertica introduced support for backup and restore to and from Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, commonly known as S3. Backup to S3 works the same as any other Vertica backup. As always, backups are incremental. That is, Vertica...

Configure JDBC clients to Work with Your Kerberos-Enabled Vertica Cluster: DbVisualizer, DBeaver, and Others

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
August 1, 2017

Many customers use JDBC-based tools like DbVisualizer and DBeaver to connect to Vertica for SQL development purposes. It is easy to use these tools on a non-Kerberos enabled Vertica cluster, but connecting to a Kerberos-enabled Vertica cluster is not straightforward because there is no native support for Kerberos on tools like DbVisualizer and DBeaver. This...

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Machine Learning Mondays: Vertica 8.1.1 Cheat Sheet

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
July 31, 2017

This blog post was authored by Vincent Xu. Vertica 8.1.1 provides SQL functions that support the complete machine learning workflow—from cleaning your data to training a model to evaluating model performance. Vertica machine learning is fast and scalable along the sizes of data samples, features, and computing cluster. Best of all, no data movement is...

What’s New in Vertica 8.1.1: Introducing Export to Parquet Format

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
July 25, 2017

This blog post was authored by Deepak Majeti. Vertica customers often ask the following questions: 1. "We want to keep hot/warm data in Vertica and move warm/cold data to an open file format on cheap external storage. How do we do this? " 2."How can we store the results from Vertica in an open file...
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What’s New in Vertica 8.1.1: Cloudera Manager Support

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
July 24, 2017

This blog post was authored by Mitchell Tracy. In Vertica 8.1.1, we introduce support for Cloudera Manager. Cloudera Manager is a platform that Hadoop administrators can use to manage their Hadoop cluster. It allows them to see the hosts associated with their cluster, and the different Hadoop services running on the cluster. Cloudera Manager also...

What’s New in Management Console 8.1.1

Lisa Donaghue
July 20, 2017

Vertica 8.1.1 introduces the ability to run SQL queries on your database through a browser. Management Console (MC) now also highlights new features and Vertica resources when you upgrade, and improves the resources and look and feel of the contextual help. Query the Database Using MC You can now use the Query Runner tool in...
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Vertica In-Database Approximate Count Distinct Functions Using LogLogBeta

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
July 19, 2017

This blog post was authored by Ginger Ni. Counting Distinct Values Data cardinality is a commonly used statistic in data analysis. Vertica has the exact COUNT(DISTINCT) function to count distinct values in a data set, but the function does not scale well for extremely large data sets. When exploring large data sets, speed is critical....
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What’s New in Vertica 8.1.1: Machine Learning

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
July 17, 2017

This blog post was authored by Soniya Shah. Vertica 8.1.1 continues with the fast-paced development for machine learning. In this release, we introduce the highly-requested random forest algorithm. We added support for SVM to include SVM for regression, in addition to the existing SVM for classification algorithm. L2 regularization was added to both the linear...