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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 user


In Teradata, a user is an entity that performs actions on the database. It logs onto the system and consumes the resources of the system while performing work. A user can be assigned to individual human users or it could be a batch user that is used to perform ETL or reporting work. Each user has a password, unlike the database. The user can have permanent space and can have spool space allocated to it. It can also own objects, like databases.

Getting ready

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

You need to have admin access to create users on the system. 

How to do it...

The following are the steps to create a Teradata database user:

  1. Open Teradata Studio and connect to your Teradata system.
  2. In the administrator window in Studio, click on Create a new user:
  1. It will bring up a box where you need to fill in the details of the new user. In the General tab, put in the...