Secondary Index in Teradata

Before you start with SI, well I must say that as a prerequisite you must first read about the Primary index in Teradata. So after knowing about Primary index the point here is that when we already have UPI and NUPI then what’s the use of this Secondary Index? Well the best possible answer for …

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What is a pseudo table Lock in Explain Plan?

When you want to retrieve the rows from the table, the very first step in explain plan is the pseudo table lock on that table e.g – Type select * from <databasename>.<tablename> in the SQL assistant, and do the explain plan for this table. The very first step you see is – 1) First, we lock …

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SET or MULTISET tables

We know that in Teradata all the tables are either SET or MULTISET. The difference between SET and MULTISET tables is –  SET tables – SET tables did not allow duplicate values in the table. e.g. COLUMN 1          COLUMN 2          COLUMN 3          COLUMN 4 A                            b                            c                            d H                           g                            y                            k A             …

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Practice Questions 3

Click below link to start –  Practice 3 You may also want to check below mentioned Sample Papers for completer reference –  Practice 1  Practice 2 I have also identified few E books which is immensely useful for Teradata Certification Preparation. Please have a look and if you are seriously preparing for TD certifications then don’t …

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Collision or Synonym in Teradata

Teradata is consistent with hashing a value. It means that when Teradata hashes the Index value (e.g. ‘teradatatech’) it will come up with a Row Hash. Now if Teradata hashes the same index value (‘teradatatech’) million times it will always come up with the same Row Hash. Teradata always hashes the same value with consistent …

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Collect Statistics in Teradata

Statistics are data demographics (or hints) used by the Teradata optimizer. There are many ways to generate a query plan for a given SQL, and collecting statistics ensures that the optimizer will have the most accurate information to create the best access and join plans. The optimizing phase of Teradata, makes decisions on how to …

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Join Indexes

The join index JOIN the two tables together and keeps the result set in the permanent space of Teradata. This JOIN index will hold the result set of the two table, and at the time of JOIN parsing engine will decide whether it is fast to build the result set from the actual BASE tables …

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