Oct 06
Introduction Fastload is the Teradata utility which can be used to load large amount of data in empty table on a Teradata System. The property which makes Fastload UNIQUE is its fast speed to load huge amount of data in tables. You can load data from – Disk or Tape drives from the channel attached …
May 16
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 …
May 11
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 …
Apr 21
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 …
Mar 14
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 …
Feb 24
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 …
Feb 21
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 …
