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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

Creating a Teradata database


Teradata database is a container of other objects, such as other child databases, tables, stored procedures, indexes, or views. To store these objects, you need to assign space to parent databases you have created; any other objects created in this database will behave as its child and take and release space to its parent database.

To access the database, proper access rights need to be given to a user. It is recommended that only admin team should be allowed to create databases, as databases need to be created in the proper hierarchy while maintaining security compliance. 

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, we will connect to the Teradata database instance and use Teradata Studio to execute the create database command.

You also need to make sure that you have adequate space in your Teradata database to allocate to your new database.

How to do it...

The following are the steps for creating a Teradata database:

  1. Open Teradata Studio and connect to your Teradata...