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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

Introduction


While Teradata database has a reputation for lessening the work of a database administrator (DBA), one has to keep in mind that there are some issues which require an administrator's involvement. It could be any of the reason where direct involvement of admin is required. Some of the most frequently occurring issues are:

  • Query performance
  • System bottleneck
  • Space management
  • User management

The recipes in this chapter will primarily focus on resolving these issues; we will be using various tools for resolving issues related to user profiles, database space issues, and generating explain plans.

In this chapter, we will use recipes that will help us to create databases and users, and we will use various tools that will help to build a good and streamlined Teradata database system.