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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

Defining a connection


Connect better! In this case, we will connect to the Teradata Express VMware machine, which is on the desktop PC, using Teradata Studio Express. However, in the real world, Teradata System(s) are located in safe data centers and you would need the IP address(es) of the system.

How to do it...

We will be establishing a JDBC data connection to a local database:

  1. Click on Database Connection, New...:
  1. Select Teradata Database from the connection profile screen and provide a name for the connection:
  1. Enter localhost in the Database Server Name. When doing a connection to a real-world database, provide an IP or a hostname here. The User Name and Password will be dbc:

If your site/client is using an LDAP to log on, you need to choose an LDAP mechanism and enter your LDAP credentials.

  1. Click on Test Connection to ensure connectivity.

You are now connected to the Teradata Database; start firing up your queries using SLQ Editor.