Duration
21 hours (usually 3 days including breaks)
Requirements
Basic knowledge of SQL and Database Systems would be helpful, although the basics will be covered during the training course.
Overview
Teradata is one of the popular Relational Database Management System. It is mainly suitable for building large scale data warehousing applications. Teradata achieves this by the concept of parallelism.
This course introduces the delegates to Teradata.
Course Outline
Introduction to Teradata
- Background
- Why use Teradata
- User Scalability
Relational Concepts
- Introduction to RDBMS
- Warehousing Concepts
Set Up and Installation
- Installation
- Tools and Utilities like BTEQ
Teradata Architecture
- Components
- Node
- Parsing Engine
- Message Parsing Layer – BYNET
- Access Module Processor
- Storage Architecture
- Retrieval Architecture
- Architectural Overview
Teradata Basic Concepts – SQL
- Data Type
- Tables
- Permanent
- Volatile
- Global Temporary
- Derived
- Set v/s Multiset Tables
- Playing with Data – CRUD Operations [DDL and DML]
- Logical and Conditional Operators
- SET Operators
- String Manipulation
- Date/Time
- Built in and Aggregate Functions
- Joins and Subqueries
- Indexes
- Primary
- Secondary
Teradata Advanced Concepts
- Case
- Coalesce
- Macros
- Stored Procedures
- Space
- Temp
- Spool
- Permanent
- Join Strategies
- Statistics
- Compression
- Hashing Algorithm
- OLAP Functions
- User Management
Teradata Additional Concepts
- Utilities
- FastLoad
- MultiLoad
- FastExport
- BTEQ
- Data Protection Methodologies
- Optimization Strategies
Note: The Training will be a mix of theory and hands on exercises, and it would be helpful if the delegates actively particpate in the given exercises.