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Table of Contents for Teradata Basics

Chapter 1 The Teradata Architecture
The Teradata Architecture The Parsing Engine The AMPs Born to be parallel The BYNET Watch the Tera-Tom Video on Architecture Collecting Statistics Parsing Engine uses Statistics for the Plan Columns and Indexes to Collect Statistics On A Scalable Architecture VProcs Nodes and MPP Watch the Tera-Tom Video on How AMPS store and process rows in Parallel

Chapter 2 Logical Modeling

Logical Modeling Primary and Foreign Keys A Normalized Data Warehouse Normalization Dimensional Modeling also called Star Schema

Chapter 3 The Primary Index

Physical Modeling - The Primary Index Two Types of Primary Indexes (UPI or NUPI) Unique Primary Index (UPI) Non-Unique Primary Index (NUPI) Multi-Column Primary Indexes When do you define the Primary Index? Watch the Tera-Tom Video on Primary Indexes Chapter 4 How Teradata Distributes and Retrieves Data How Teradata Distributes and Retrieves Rows Hashing the Primary Index Value

The Hash Map Laying a Row onto the Proper AMP Retrieving a Row by way of the Primary Index Placing Non-Unique Primary Indexes (NUPI) Rows Non-Unique Primary Indexes Continued Placing (NUPI) Rows Continued Retrieving (NUPI) Rows Even Distribution with an UPI Uneven Distribution with a NUPI Unacceptable Distribution with a NUPI Big Trouble A Picture of a Full Table Scan A Visual for Data Layout Watch the Tera-Tom Video on Data Placement Bonus Video - Tera-Tom Video on the Row-ID Test your Teradata Primary Index Knowledge

Chapter 5 Secondary Indexes

Secondary Indexes The Secondary Index Subtable USI Always a Two-AMP Operation USI Summary Watch the Tera-Tom Video on Unique Secondary Indexes (USI) NUSI Subtable is AMP-Local NUSI Recap Secondary Index Summary Watch the Tera-Tom Video on Non-Unique Secondary Indexes (NUSI)

Chapter 6 Partitioned Tables

A Table used for our Partitioning Example Range Queries Why we had to perform a Full Table Scan A Partitioned Table A Partitioned Table One Year of Orders Partitioned Fundamentals of Partitioning Add the Partition to the Row-ID for the Row Key Multi-Level Partitioning

Partitioning Rules Watch the Tera-Tom Video on Partitioning

Chapter 7 Space
The most Powerful USER DBC owns all the Disk Space DBC Example of 1000 GBs DBC will first CREATE a USER or a DATABASE Teradata is Hierarchical Only two Objects can Receive PERM Space PERM, SPOOL and TEMP Space Spool is like a Speed Limit All Space is calculated on a Per AMP Basis Watch the Tera-Tom Video on Space

Chapter 8 Join Indexes

Introduction to a Join Index Join Index Fundamentals A Multi-Table Join Index Example Multi-Table Join Index Picture Single-Table Join Index Aggregate Join Index Join Index Details to Remember Watch the Tera-Tom Video on the Parody Teradata Query Search-Off

Chapter 9 Data Protection

Data Protection Transaction Concept Transient Journal RAID 1 - Mirroring Cliques VProcs Migrate when a Node Fails Cliques An 8-Node Example Hot Standby Nodes Hot Standby Nodes in Action FALLBACK Protection

How Fallback Works Fallback Clusters Exercise Fallback Clusters The Six Rules of Fallback Down AMP Recovery Journal (DARJ) Permanent Journal Permanent Journal Rules

Chapter 10 Locking
The Four Locks of Teradata Teradata has 3 levels of Locking Locking Modifiers The Access Lock Locks and their compatibility

Chapter 11 The Steps to Active Data Warehousing

The Active Data Warehouse Operational Data Stores Vs the Data Warehouse How is all Started - OLTP, DSS, OLCP, and OLAP Data Marts Distributed Data Warehousing The Future Watch the Tera-Tom Video on the Nexus Nerds Centralized Data Warehousing

Chapter 12 Teradata Hardware, Software and Security

Teradata V12 Platforms Teradata V12 Operating Systems A Typical Cabinet and Node LAN Connection for Network Attached Clients Mainframe Connection to Teradata LDAP Access Rights Automatic, Implicit, and Explicit Rights Roles Profiles Views Macros

Stored Procedures User Defined Functions (UDF)

Chapter 13 Teradata Tools

Teradata Analyst Pack Teradata Visual Explain Utility TSET Index Wizard Statistics Wizard Three Levels of Workload Management Teradata Dynamic Workload Manager Priority Scheduler Fundamentals Priority Scheduler with Additional Partitions Database Query Log (DBQL) Teradata Workload Analyzer Performance Monitor

Chapter 14 Load Utilities

Teradata Load Utilities Teradata Load Utilities Continued BTEQ The Four Types of BTEQ Exports BTEQ IMPORT Script FastLoad FastLoad has Two Phases A Sample FastLoad Script The SmartScript FastLoad Builder MultiLoad A Sample MultiLoad Script The SmartScript MultiLoad Builder TPump Limitations of TPump A Sample TPump Script The SmartScript TPump Builder FastExport Teradata Parallel Transport TPT Operators and their Functions

TPT Operator Types TPT Operators and their Equivalent Load Utility How to Run a TPT Script Watch the Tera-Tom Video on his trip to India