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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...

Enter the Flex Zone – Under the Hood

Ben Vandiver
February 14, 2014

With Vertica's latest release (Vertica 7 Crane"), we introduced Vertica Flex Zone, based on the patent-pending flex tables technology, which dynamically adapt to whatever schema is present in the data. Flex tables offer dramatic usability improvements over regular tables. In this post, we take a look under the hood and show how flex tables are...
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Enter the FlexZone – Let’s talk ETL

Steve Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
January 30, 2014

In December, HP released version 7 of the Vertica analytics platform which includes, among others, a great new feature called Vertica Flex Zone (Flex Zone). Flex Zone enables you to quickly and easily load, explore and analyze some forms of semi-structured data. It eliminates the need for coding-intensive schemas to be defined or applied before...

Enter the Flex Zone – Exploring Delimited Data

Ben Vandiver
January 22, 2014

Here at Vertica, we had to solve a technical challenge that many of you might be facing: data analysis from legacy products.

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Welcome to the Flex Zone – Dynamic Schemas

Ben Vandiver
January 15, 2014

Much of the data analytics we perform occurs with data whose schema changes over time. Many organizations have developers who define the record types that are collected and analysts who comb through these records looking for important patterns. In today's fast-changing business landscape, agility is the key to success: developers need to continually define new...

Enter the Flex Zone –– An Exploration in Processing Twitter Data

Ben Vandiver
January 13, 2014

With our