Schedule for Teradata 4 day Course

Pre-requisites:

Work experience on Teradata projects (preferred)

Knowledge of RDBMS (required)
Data Warehouse Experience (preferred)

Objectives:

Impart detailed knowledge of Teradata RDBMS and its usage in Data Warehouse
environment
Impart detailed knowledge of Teradata TUF utilities

Commitment

Appearing for Teradata basic certification exam

Week 1
Day 1 (Monday) Teradata Concepts
Morning
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Teradata Factory Overview and class introductions

Teradata concepts and competitive advantages
Relational database concepts and terminology
Teradata basics data distribution, parallelism, & scalability
Teradata RDBMS components and architecture

Afternoon
5. Teradata implementations (if possible, start this module in morning)
6. Creating a Teradata database
7. Storing and accessing data rows
8. Primary Index Mechanics
9. Secondary indexes and table scans
10. Data protection (RAID, Cliques, Clusters, Locks, and Journals)

Day 2 (Tuesday) Database Administration

Morning
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Introduction to NCR Systems Teradata platforms overview

NCR 49xx/53xx Configurations and Disk Arrays - detail discussion
How Teradata uses NCR Systems (FSG Cache, Vdisks, and Pdisks)
Building the Database Environment
The Data Dictionary/Directory
Lab Exercise 2 takes approximately 45 minutes

Afternoon
6. Space allocation and usage
7. Users, Accounts and Accounting
Lab Exercise 4 takes approximately 45 minutes
8. Access Rights
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9. Roles and Profiles and Lab Exercise (1:00 for lab)

10. Logical Modeling, 3NF, and denormalization issues overview
11. Data Distribution, Hashing, and Index Access

Day 3 (Wednesday) Application Utilities

Morning
1. Overview of Load and Unload utilities
2. BTEQ
Lab Exercise 2 takes approximately 1:15 minutes
Afternoon
3. FastLoad
Lab Exercise 3 takes approximately 1:15 minutes
4. Support Environment for MultiLoad, FastExport, TPump (skip lab)
5. FastExport up to page 21

Day 4 (Thursday) Application Utilities

Morning
5. Complete FastExport (start at page 22)
Lab Exercise 5 takes approximately 1:15 minutes.
6. MultiLoad
Lab Exercise 6 takes approximately 1 hour
Afternoon
7. MultiLoad Part II
Lab Exercise 7 takes approximately 1 hour
8. TPump
Lab Exercise 8 takes approximately 30 to 45 minutes
9. Making the right choice of a utility
Closure / Exit Test : 3:00 pm