TERADATA
What is Teradata?
Teradata v13.10 & versions
Teradata History
Teradata user’s scalability
Teradata & other RDBMS
Teradata warehouse
Teradata in the Enterprise
Interview Q&A and Certification queries
Real time Issues & resolving
TERADATA ARCHITECTURE
Node Architecture (Shared Architecture)
SMP Architecture
MPP Architecture
Parsing engine (PE) Architecture
AMP Architecture & uses
Bynet Benefits & types
Parallel data extension (PDE)
Teradata directory program (TDP)
Call level interface (CLI)
Trusted parallel application (TPA)
Virtual processors
Bynet 0 & Bynet 1
Parallism Architecture
OBJECTS OF TERADATA
Types of tables
Set tables
Multi tables
Volatile tables
Global temporary tables
Derived tables
Views
Macros
RECOVERY & PROTECTION OF DATA
What is fall back & where it used
Why for fall back
What is Clique
AMP Clustering
& types for simultaneous Access
Why for locks & how to release
RAID 1 & RAID 5
Journals & types
Virtual Disk Array
How & where are used journals?
INDEXES OF TERADATA
Types of indexes in Teradata
Data Distribution and Data Retrieval
Use of indexes
Primary indexes (unique, non- unique, NO PI)
Secondary indexes (unique, non- unique)
Partition Primary Indexes (PPI)
Multilevel portioning primary index (MLPPI)
Join indexes
Skew factor
Keys & indexes (How & why these used)
STORAGE & RETRIEVAL OF DATA
SQL Request Processing
SQL Syntax
Resolver
Security Mode
Optimizer
Step Generator
GNC Apply
Dispatcher
Primary Index
Hashing Algorithm
Row Hash
DSW
Hash Map
Hash Bucket
Reaching V disk
TERADATA SQL’s
SQL fundamentals
Data types and literals
DDL Statements
DML Statements
Teradata naming convesions
TERADATA SQL FUNCTIONS & OPERATIONS
String functions
Format functions
Cast functions
Group & Aggregation functions
Logical operations
Arithmetic operations
Set operations
Join operations
Conditional expressions
Teradata OLAP Functions
TERADATA JOIN STRATEGIES
Hash join
Merge join
Nested join
Product join
Exclusion Merge
Single window Merge Join
TERADATA JOINS and SET OPERATORS
Inner join
Left outer join
Right outer Join
Full outer join
Union
Union All
Intersect
Minus
TERADATA EXTENSIONS
Help
Show
Macros
Explain
Collect statistics
Teradata Performance Tuning
TERADATA MEMORY SPACES
Permanent spaces
Temporary spaces
Spool spaces
Users spaces & PWD
TERADATA TRANSACTION MODES
BTET mode
ANSI mode
How convert into other modes
Interactive and Batch mode
TERADATA PERFORMANCE TUNING ON SQL ASSISTANCE
Usage of PMON
Explain usage
Collecting statistics
SQL tuning
Various SQL statements
Real time Issues & resolving
TERADATA UTILITIES (IMPORT & EXPORT)
BTEQ
Teradata BTeq scripts
Overview of BTeq
Looping stages
Batches scripts
Import & export scripts with Examples
Error handling
Real time scripts
FastLoad
Teradata FastLoad
Overview FastLoad
Types of phases
Advantages of FastLoad
Limitations of fast load
Real time scripts
MultiLoad
Teradata MultiLoad
Overview of Multi load
Types of phases in MultiLoad
Advantages of MultiLoad
Limitations of MultiLoad
Uses various types of operations
Work on Multi tables
Real time scripts
Sample scripts
Tpump
Teradata Tpump
Overview of Tpump
Limitations of Tpump
Work on Multi tables
Real time scripts
Sample scripts
Fast Export
Teradata Fast Export
How to export the data
Passing parameters
IN/OUTModes
Work on Multi tables
Real time scripts
Sample scripts
Teradata TPT
Teradata performance tuning on scripts
Explanation of explain plan
Real Time Interview Questions
Teradata Advanced Concepts