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Teradata Cookbook

By : Abhinav Khandelwal, Viswanath Kasi, Rajsekhar Bhamidipati
Book Image

Teradata Cookbook

By: Abhinav Khandelwal, Viswanath Kasi, Rajsekhar Bhamidipati

Overview of this book

Teradata is an enterprise software company that develops and sells its eponymous relational database management system (RDBMS), which is considered to be a leading data warehousing solutions and provides data management solutions for analytics. This book will help you get all the practical information you need for the creation and implementation of your data warehousing solution using Teradata. The book begins with recipes on quickly setting up a development environment so you can work with different types of data structuring and manipulation function. You will tackle all problems related to efficient querying, stored procedure searching, and navigation techniques. Additionally, you’ll master various administrative tasks such as user and security management, workload management, high availability, performance tuning, and monitoring. This book is designed to take you through the best practices of performing the real daily tasks of a Teradata DBA, and will help you tackle any problem you might encounter in the process.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introduction


Teradata Database provides system-based utilities that help users to change system parameters or to check the system's status.

You can start the utilities either via the command line or the graphical user interfaces. These utilities have similar behavior to other utilities you will have used in other systems. You need to choose from the given options and the result will be displayed based on the options you chose. To execute these utilities, you must have the appropriate access provided.

Note

Executing command-line utilities should be done with care, as they can bring down the system if they are not executed properly.

Utility files are copied to all nodes by PDE software. This is done when your TD engineers configure/build Teradata Database.

These tools are also available from the Viewpoint remote console page as well, as shown in the following screenshot:

Some of the utilities that help in maintaining system health are as follows:

Utility Name

Used For

DBS control

Lists and changes system...