For latest update about Teradata 14 certification, click below link – Teradata 14 Certification The Teradata Certified Professional Program is focused on advancing the growth of Teradata knowledge and skills to a worldwide professional IT community. After V2R5 the latest set of exams for Teradata is – TERADATA 12. There are total 7 exams for …
Feb 26
Interview Questions : SET 1
Question 1: Explain TPUMP (Teradata Parallel Data Pump) Utility in Teradata? Answer: TPUMP allows near real time updates from Transactional Systems into the Data Warehouse.It can perform Insert, Update and Delete operations or a combination from the same source. It can be used as an alternative to MLOAD for low volume batch maintenance of large …
Feb 26
Teradata Background Check
The Teradata database was originally designed in 1976, by TERADATA Corp. Nearly 25 years later, Teradata is still considered ahead of its time. In 1976, IBM, mainframes dominated the computer business. However the original founders of TD noticed that it took about 4½ years for IBM to produce a new mainframe. At the same time, …
Feb 25
How To Use Built-in Functions in Teradata?
First of all what are Built-in functions? These are functions which do not need any sort of arguments but still returns information about the system; user, date, time, session etc. Built-in functions are sometimes referred to as special registers. Mostly used with the SELECT statement. SELECT <Built-In Function> • ACCOUNT: – If you are wondering …
Feb 25
LIKE with ESCAPE sequence
LIKE is used in Teradata to match string against a set of pattern which a user required. There are two wild card characters used in LIKE and they are – ‘_’ and ‘%’. ‘_’ is used for single character search. ‘%’ is used for multiple character search. For e.g. 1) Suppose we want to search …
Feb 24
Components of Teradata
Teradata is made up of following components – Processor Chip – The processor is the BRAIN of the Teradata system. It is responsible for all the processing done by the system. All task are done according to the direction of the processor. Memory – The memory is known as the HAND of the Teradata system. …
Feb 24
Teradata Architecture
The biggest strength of the Teradata is the parallelism. So the architecture of the Teradata is designed in such way to keep this strength in mind. Teradata is unique from any other database because of its unique architecture only. The main components of Teradata architecture is PE (Parsing Engine), AMP (Access Module Processor) and BYNET …


