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Use official Redshift driver in docs

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
jupyter-notebook, python

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Open _posts/python-v3/databases/redshift.ipynb and inspect the current psycopg2 example first. Update the documented connection example to use redshift_connector, including the relevant Redshift-specific integration described in the issue. Done means the notebook no longer relies on psycopg2 and the example remains valid documentation.

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Description

Hi there, I maintain redshift_connector.

I noticed https://github.com/plotly/graphing-library-docs/blob/master/_posts/python-v3/databases/redshift.ipynb uses psycopg2. redshift_connector is mentioned here on the plotly website, but this example uses psycopg2. Could you folks consider updating this to use redshift_connector?

redshift_connector supports integration with SQLAlchemy via the Redshift specific SQLAlchemy dialect (sqlalchemy-redshift) as well as a bunch of Redshift specific features such as IAM and Identity provider based authentication as well as support for Redshift native datatypes.

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