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Teradata Cookbook

You're reading from   Teradata Cookbook Over 85 recipes to implement efficient data warehousing solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280786
Length 454 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhinav Khandelwal Abhinav Khandelwal
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Viswanath Kasi Viswanath Kasi
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Rajsekhar Bhamidipati Rajsekhar Bhamidipati
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installation 2. SQLs FREE CHAPTER 3. Advanced SQL with Backup and Restore 4. All about Indexes 5. Mixing Strategies – Joining of Tables 6. Building Loading Utility – Replication and Loading 7. Monitoring the better way 8. Collect Statistics the Better Way 9. Application and OPS DBA Insight 10. DBA Insight 11. Performance Tuning 12. Troubleshooting 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Changing and managing throttle


Teradata workload management provides another great way to optimize and monitor your system.

Throttles help in limiting the work coming into the system. They are a way to reduce and maintain concurrent queries or requests on the system. Imagine a highway without a red light in place. There would be no traffic management, and all the roads would become jammed. Even if your roads are capable of handling high amounts of traffic, unmanaged traffic will create chaos.

Similar is true for the Teradata database; to keep the system throughput effective all the time, it is important to limit the number of work requests coming into the system.

The following flowchart shows the lifetime of a query on a system:

Query Request Workflow

Note

Teradata 16 has a feature known as flex throttle, which is self intelligent throttle that auto-adjusts itself based on the system workload.

The following are some different kinds of throttles available:

  • Session throttles limit active sessions...
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