Description
This course details the fundamentals of the Teradata database and will get students Teradata
Certified as Teradata Certified Professionals. Students learn about parallel processing, AMPs
and PEPs, how Teradata lays out data evenly, Primary Index use, hashing, Perm and Spool
Space, and protection features.
Topics include:
Audience
This course is intended for a mix of beginning, intermediate and advanced Teradata users.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Course Agenda
The Rules of Data Warehousing
• Teradata Facts
• Teradata: Brilliant by Design
• The Teradata Parallel Architecture
• A Logical View of the Teradata Architecture
• The Teradata Architecture: PE, AMP, and BYNET
• The Parsing Engine
• The AMPs
• The BYNET
• A Visual for Data Layout
• Teradata is a Shared Nothing Architecture
• Teradata has Linear Scalability
• How Teradata Handles Data Access
Data Protection
• Transaction Concept and Transient Journal
• How the Transient Journal Works
• FALLBACK Protection
• How Fallback Works
• Fallback Clusters
• Down AMP Recovery Journal (DARJ)
• Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)
• Cliques
• Permanent Journal
• Locking Modes in Teradata
Teradata Hardware
• Teradata’s Building Block Approach
• Multiple Nodes Are Connected Via The BYNET
• Teradata Performance – The Divide and Conquer Theory
• NCR 4950 and 5350 Systems
• SMP Nodes are Attached to Disk Chapters
• How Multiple Nodes are Connected Via the BYNET
• What An Actual Cabinet Looks Like
• TPA versus Non-TPA Nodes
Secondary Indexes
• Secondary Indexes Are Key To Good Performance
• Unique Secondary Index (USI)
• USI Subtable Example
• NUSI Subtable Example
• Syntax to create a Secondary Index
• Value-Ordered NUSI
• Collect Statistics
• NUSI Bitmapping
• Prototyping Indexes with EXPLAIN
• Secondary Index Summary
• Chart for Primary and Secondary Access