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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

Setting up viewpoint alerts


Teradata provides many tools to monitor and manage your database. Viewpoint is one of the tools that provides you an inner view of your database. Viewpoint not only helps you to govern your jobs on the system, but reports any unwanted activity on the system. With Teradata viewpoint 16.0, you can use viewpoint on your mobile devices, too.

Viewpoint is a best friend tool for any admin to monitor the system in real time. Teradata makes it possible to live view your whole system in a 360-view. You can do the following with Teradata viewpoint:

  • Create and manage a workload
  • View and report Hadoop and Aster systems
  • Manage and report query activity
  • Use the remote console utility
  • Monitor and manage PDCR jobs
  • Monitor and manage backup jobs
  • Monitor viewpoint on mobile
  • Manage and report space
  • Manage and report CPU, I/O, and other performance parameters

Viewpoint alerts can be set up for all activities that you monitor on viewpoint. Some cases include high PJI sessions, high spool consuming...