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title: "Operations"
slug: "dev-database-operations"
updated: 2026-11-05T22:16:11Z
published: 2026-11-05T22:16:11Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/dev-database-operations"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vastdata.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Operations

What your code needs around it: access, permissions, security, monitoring and automation. Start with Setup prerequisites to get access; read Security and Performance as your workload grows, and CI/CD and automation when you provision from a pipeline.

- **[Setup prerequisites](/develop/docs/dev-database-operations-setup-prerequisites)**: What your platform team sets up before you use VAST DataBase, the permissions each SDK operation needs, example policies and a check.
- **[Security](/develop/docs/dev-database-operations-security)**: How identity policies, row and column security and impersonation affect what you can see and do from the SDK, Trino and Spark.
- **[Performance](/develop/docs/dev-database-operations-performance)**: Speed up queries and loads through table structure, narrower requests, large write batches and spread endpoints, and which cluster settings to request.
- **[Monitoring your workload](/develop/docs/dev-database-operations-monitoring-your-workload)**: See your own queries and loads from the client: SDK logging, table statistics, sort progress, the partitions view and the imports table.
- **[Snapshots and replication](/develop/docs/dev-database-operations-snapshots-and-replication)**: Query a table as it was in a snapshot, and learn what asynchronous replication means for the data on a replica.
- **[CI/CD and automation](/develop/docs/dev-database-operations-ci-cd)**: Create and check a database's view, policies, user and keys from CI with the REST API, vastpy and Terraform, then its tables.