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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


Query writing is an art. When a painter starts on the canvas he has a clear understanding of what he is going to draw on the empty canvas; he can’t just start with something and change his mind in the middle of the drawing. Imagine Leonardo da Vinci drawing Mona Lisa and half way in-between he changes his mind and starts drawing Medusa.

Data volumes are on the continuous rise and the size of the data warehouse has been increasing more than ever. In such a scenario, writing queries efficiently has become even more important. For a developer or a data scientist, using SQL still remains a very powerful method of analyzing data and building reports and trends.