This video will show how Teradata performs joins inside the Teradata engine. Viewers will learn how to tune their joins for maximum performance. This video provides insight into the keys to make joining tables a much faster process. The information in this video is absolutely critical for any Teradata user.

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This chapter will explain perm space, spool space, and temp space and how the DBC will begin to create the user and database environment.

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Columnar Tables are Teradata’s way of vertically partitioning tables. Viewers will learn how to create a columnar table and how to populate it. Finally, viewers will learn when they should choose to lay out tables in a columnar design.

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Partitioned primary index tables (PPI TABLES) are designed to horizontally partition tables in order to prevent full table scans. Viewers will understand all aspects of creating a partitioned table, how the data is laid out, and how this speeds up retrieval.

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This video shows how data is stored in blocks and how the blocks are stored in cylinders. Each AMP has a master index and a cylinder index to quickly find their data, and the cylinders are given temperatures so the most popular data is in the hottest cylinders.

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This video shows how data is stored in data blocks and how that data is processed. It also introduces synchronized scan and intelligent memory for better performance. This brilliant video shows viewers the realities of how Teradata processes data and additional Teradata options for maximum performance.

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This video shows how Teradata hashes the primary index to distribute the data for all of the primary index options. Understanding how Teradata distributes the data gives viewers and opportunity to see the data and understand how to performance tune queries when speed is the need.

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“Teradata Basics 1- Teradata Architecture” introduces the basic foundations so users can understand the roles of the Parsing Engine, Bynet, and the AMPs. This video will also make sure that users know how the hardware is configured in an SMP and MPP configuration. Finally, users will understand the fundamentals behind the primary index and its…

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