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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

Configuring the viewpoint portlet


Teradata viewpoint is an integrated, drop-in appliance with a rich, powerful, and robust web-based (and now mobile-based) interface that can monitor multiple Teradata database systems and provide actionable monitoring and management information to end users, DBAs, and managers.

Teradata viewpoint has many portlets, categorized under different subjects or contents, that need to be monitored or have actions taken upon them. Portlets are added to pages, and you can either have one portlet per page or many portlets on one page.

Teradata viewpoint 16.10 is the latest viewpoint available on the market. 

Getting ready

You need to log on to the Teradata viewpoint page using a web browser.

How to do it...

  1. Once logged on, you will be presented with a blank page (if the default portlet was not added by the admin before):

Viewpoint login page

  1. Click on add content. This portlet will allow you to add several portlets to the page in a single go; you can add the same portlet multiple...