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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

Securing passwords using Teradata Wallet


Teradata Database has many features that make your data and database secure. To continue to make the system more secure, Teradata has introduced Teradata Wallet. Teradata Wallet (TW) is a facility using which you can store sensitive/secret information such as Teradata Database credentials.

What there is in a wallet is known only by the owner of the wallet. The figure shows the visual representation of a vault in which information is secured and can be opened only by the person who is authenticated to do it:

Users save and retrieve credentials by using this utility. This stored information is used while signing in to the Teradata Database using any utility or piece of software that uses Teradata.

The wallet has two parts:

  • The NAME of the item
  • The VALUE of the item

 Both the NAME and VALUE of the item are sequences of Unicode characters of arbitrary content.

An item name is used to uniquely select an item in the wallet. Value is the content of the item, which...