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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 profiles and assigning them to users


Profiles is used to identify and group similar types of user on the system. It has a set of common parameters that are applied. It includes:

  • Account IDs
  • Default database
  • Spool space allocation
  • Permanent and temporary space allocation
  • Password attributes
  • Queryband

As best practice it is beneficial to create different profiles for different user groups, identified based on their application type, business vertical, and other similar properties. Parameter settings in profiles always take precedence over those specified in CREATE or MODIFY USER statements.

Profiles can be modified after creation if required.

Getting ready

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

You need to have admin access to create a profile on the system. 

How to do it...

The following are the steps for creating profiles and assigning them to users:

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