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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 Teradata 15.10


Before we begin the installation process of our Teradata Database on a local machine, you need to install VMware workstation 12.x for Windows.

How to do it... 

  1. Fire up the installed VMware software:
  1. Click on Open a Virtual Machine and select the TDExpress15.10.0.7_Sles11_40GB_vp.vmx file from the open window prompt:
  1. You are now ready to play the installed Teradata Database.

 

  1. Click on the Play Virtual machine link. The setup will run its course and take you to the login screen:
  1. Login with root as the username and password. Wait for the Teradata Lab log wallpaper to show up on the desktop in the bottom-right corner:
  1. Voila! You have successfully installed the Teradata Database on your machine. The world's best analytical and data warehouse database is now up and running on your machine as the VM image:
  1. Our next step will be to set up a client tool that connects to the existing database instance.