Teradata Cookbook in Bloomington, MN

Over 100 recipes to help you implementing efficient data warehousing solutions with Teradata
About This Book
Take your understanding of Teradata to the next level and build efficient data warehousing applications for your organization
Covers recipes on data handling, warehousing, advanced querying and the administration tasks in Teradata
Contains practical solutions to tackle the common as well as the not-so-common problems you might encounter in your day to day activities
Who This Book Is For
This book is for DBAs and Teradata users who are looking for a practical, one-stop resource to solve all their problems while handling their Teradata solution. If you are looking to learn the basic as well as the advanced tasks involved in Teradata querying or admininstration, this book will also help you. Some knowledge of the relational database concepts will be helpful to get the best out of this book.
What You Will Learn
Understand Teradata's competitive advantage over other RDBMSs.
Use SQL to process data stored in Teradata tables.
Leverage Teradata’s available application utilities and parallelism to play with large datasets
Apply various performance turning techniques to optimize the queries.
Acquire deeper knowledge and understanding of the Teradata Architecture.
Easy steps to load, archive, restore data and implement Teradata protection features
Gain confidence in running a wide variety of Data analytics and develop applications for the Teradata environment
In Detail
Teradata is an enterprise software company that develops and sells a relational database management system (RDBMS) with the same name. It is considered to be a leading data warehousing solutions and provides data management solutions for analytics. This book will be your guide to 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 for you to work with different types of data structuring and manipulation functions. You will tackle all problems related to efficient querying, stored procedures searching and navigation techniques. Additionally, you’ll master the various administration 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.